For some years now the American far-leftist activists and politicians have adopted the word "democracy" as one of their pet buzzwords. Everything they don't like is "a threat to democracy", and many of their insane demands are "to protect democracy" according to them (even though quite often it does the exact opposite, like for example allowing anonymous voting, ie. not demanding people to ID themselves to vote.)
I predict that in the following years their tune will change, especially when they finally realize that their fear-mongering and abuse of the buzzword isn't working. I expect one of two possible changes:
1) Less likely but perfectly possible (because the far-left is completely happy to reverse positions on the blink of an eye), they will actually start opposing democracy. After all, democracy allows people to vote for the "wrong" candidates.
If they do this, they will argue that democracy has failed and is not a good system because it allows the "far right" and the "fascists" to raise to power by being voted into government, and that can't be allowed. (Even if they do this they won't be able to stop democratic elections, but they will loudly speak against it at least.)
2) However, much more likely is that they will not stop supporting democracy, but at some point they will change the meaning of the word "democracy" to something else completely, and pretend that that's what it has always meant. That way they can keep pretending to supporting it, keep pretending to "protect democracy", keep pretending that the "far right" is "a threat to democracy". It's just that they will now have changed the meaning of the word to something else (and pretending it has always meant that.)
I would not find that surprising in the least because the far left loves to do exactly that. They love to play word games, they love to take existing words and change their meaning, while preserving the original connotation (be it positive or negative).
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