Leftist politicians are trying to ban criticism of them

One of the core principles of a free democratic constitutional country is that criticism of the government, of the people in charge, is a fundamental protected right. In fact, it is well established in most free democratic countries that criticism of the government (and the people running it) in particular has even more protections than things said to other people. The threshold at which someone could be prosecuted for saying something about a politician in government is generally much higher than when said about some other person.

In other words, criticism of the government, and the people running it, is one of the core pillars of a free democratic constitutional society.

In several countries the far left is quickly trying to change this. They are trying to remove your right to criticize them.

In more and more countries politicians, pretty much solely far-leftist politicians, have been talking more and more about how "dangerous" it is to throw caustic criticism at a politician, how it "causes violence", and how it's "a threat to democracy".

Oh, how ironic. The one core pillar of free constitutional democracy, criticism of the government, is now suddenly a threat to it.

But that's exactly what they do: They twist words and concepts. They change the meaning of negative words to cover things they were never intended to cover, by retaining the negative connotations. And they likewise change the meaning of positive words, like "democracy", and twist them to mean pretty much the opposite of what they actually do. Which is amazingly Orwellian. Now freedom of speech, freedom to criticize the government, is not one of the core pillars of democracy, but a threat to it.

If they ever succeed in criminalizing criticism of the government, that's not protecting democracy. That's destroying democracy.