Of course, from 2016, when the Trump derangement hysteria was at its most apocalyptic maximum, before he spent four years as president... relatively uneventfully, constantly criticized by all sectors of the media and persistently, openly investigated by the very government beneath his administration, without being able to stop either in any meaningful way. Very repressive indeed, the very definition of tyranny.

>Democracies end when they are too democratic

The implicit idea behind this being that people shouldn't be able to choose just anyone as their leader. That perhaps a group of informed social betters, possibly from among those, like the writer, who describe their sipping cocktails with other influential people in Washington while they watch the news with nausea, should have a firm say in how the majority can vote.

Visibly elitist pseudo philosophical hysterics posing as reasoned discourse. In 2016 it was especially notable. These people too can easily slip into authoritarian ideations.