> The West is currently in the process of committing suicide.

This one of those lines that, when it appears in an article, you know there's an error somewhere in the preceding thousand lines of argument, as surely as if it were a proof that 1 == 0.

> an intolerant minority can control and destroy democracy

I'm more worried about intolerant minorities of privileged people who are currently in power destroying democracy, not least because they actually have the power.