CNN's Brian Stelter exemplifies the media pattern of constantly claiming Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy that must be curbed. The comedy never ends. Trump was supposedly going to end democracy throughout his first term, and the fact that democracy never ended never slows Stelter & Co. down.

On March 18, Stelter played up a new report out of Sweden that America is "rapidly autocratizing" in Trump's second term. It looks like the Democrats are going to try to make "End of Democracy" a campaign issue again in the midterms, even though it accomplished nothing in 2024. But they're hoping to use it to keep their voters motivated for the midterms.

Screechers like the hosts of "The View" on ABC routinely suggest Trump's going to cancel elections, and no liberal "fact-checker" moves a muscle. Leftists spent most of 2024 suggesting Trump was going to ruin the 2024 election. He only "ruined" it by winning. Stelter acknowledged: "Trump loyalists often dispute these concerns by pointing out that Trump won reelection democratically. But the researchers are........

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