The threat to Western democracy comes not from Putin but from its own internal sickness.
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The “democratic values” to which Biden frequently referred mean less and less as they justify the tyranny of liberalism. These democracy defenders are its greatest opponents, peddling a woke globalism that empowers the elite at the expense of the people. Biden’s trip was less an illustration of democracy’s strength than its dysfunction.