[See NewsBusters for more.] As Ukrainians fight to preserve their democracy, PBS’s Christiane Amanpour declared it necessary on her Friday show to likewise preserve democracy at home against those would rather seek to install some sort of autocracy.
Speaking with political scientist Francis Fukuyama, Amanpour warned, “your own country, the United States, has seen -- and certainly some European countries, and particularly in Eastern Europe, you know, illiberal democracies, even a tendency towards a slight autocracy, even in our democracies. And this was happening in the United States. And a lot of it is a result of or built on the incredible partisan division inside the United States. You touched on it right now, with the fight over vaccine mandates and—and-- the rest.”