Civics: “It’s part of democracy — doubting and criticizing the mechanisms of democracy”

Ann Althouse:

Is he saying vote Democratic? He’s at least saying vote agains the non-mainstream MAGA Republicans. Did we the people pay for this event? Why were Marines there?  

… America is still the beacon to the world, an ideal to be realized, a promise to be kept. There’s nothing more important. Nothing more sacred….

Nothing more sacred than government? And the other guys are the fascists? 

That’s our soul. That’s who we truly are. And that’s who we must always be…. We just need to remember who we are. We are the United States of America, the United States of America….

More:

All 3 networks judged it too political to deserve live coverage in prime time? And yet the Marines were there, attesting to its nonpolitical nature!

Farhi supplies this hilarious tweet from polisci prof Brendan Nyhan: “‘The networks refusing to cover Biden’s speech (presumably because it was going to be critical of Trump and/or not newsworthy enough) is precisely the problem’ confronting democracy.” No, it’s precisely the separation of government and journalism we need in a healthy democracy.

Related: taxpayer funded Administrative censorship.