The Dems' absurd charge that Republicans are 'threat to democracy'

 Newbusters:

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour recently interviewed former President Barack Obama for an hour-long special that aired Thursday night that carried the pretentious subtitle Will Democracy Win? CNN was not subtle in trying to portray Republicans as a threat to democracy, beyond the subtitle, the opening narrator hyped the location of the interview, “An in depth conversation on the state of American democracy from the birthplace of democracy, Athens, Greece.”

Early on in the interview, Obama described U.S. institutions as “creaky” from the strain of allegedly anti-democratic sentiment. Amanpour took that idea and ran with it, “So, let's ask about the creaky or not institutions in the United States. The spectacle of a former president being federally indicted, how is the rest of the world, the democratic world, maybe even the non-democratic world, meant to interpret that indictment and, indeed, the fact that a indictee is running, is able to run for the highest office in the land, maybe even the world?”
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For his part, Obama declared it “less than ideal, but the fact that we have a former president who is having to answer to charges brought by prosecutors, does uphold the basic notion that nobody is above the law. And the allegations will now be sorted out through a court process.”

More concerning for Obama was “gerrymandering” and “trying to silence critics through changes in legislative process, whether it's attempts to intimidate the press,” whatever that means.

Later in the program, Amanpour continued with the theme that Republicans are horrible:

You said recently in a speech that if we keep having these terrible differences that we have, we will destroy each other, we have to find a way, how to live together…

I spoke to one of the Republican candidates, former Governor Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas who said to me ‘give the candidates a chance to talk to the issues the Americans are concerned about, let’s use appropriate language, let's be clear that we have differences of policy but doesn't always make the person on the other side an evil person or somebody that doesn't love our country.’…

Do you think the Republicans will coalesce around that kind of message?

Cracking himself up, Obama replied, “No. There’s no evidence that's where their head is at right now.”

There’s also no evidence that his former vice president, who accused Republicans of wanting to black people back in chains, is the right man for that job either, but nobody brought that up as Obama continued to ramble about the GOP and “the siloing of information” and how people who watch Fox News live in a different world than people who read the New York Times.
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Obama and many Democrats are more comfortable with the NY Times than Fox because the Times panders to the evils of liberalism.  Democrats have little interest in hearing what the other side has to say.  Republicans actually favor defeating the Democrats at the ballot box in true democratic elections.