The Passive Path to Democracy’s Death

The defendants in the 1924 trial of the architects of the Beer Hall Putsch of the preceding fall. Hitler fourth from right. (Did you need me to write that?)

Is it off-key to write alarmingly of the imminent danger of “democracy’s death” when, for the first time in five years, the United States is once again under competent adult supervision?

Joe Biden’s first hundred days have been startlingly aggressive (in a good way) in restoring the fundamentals of decent, Constitutionally sound governance. Not only has he re-established the rule of law, but the…