Democracy Dies in His Lies

Trump doesn’t want to win democracy, he wants to end it. His war on truth isn’t politics; it’s preparation for dictatorship, broadcast from the Oval Office.

In the dimming light of American democracy, Donald J. Trump has returned not merely as a political figure, but as an architect of something darker, something corrosive, deceptive, and fundamentally anti-democratic. His ascent is not simply the story of a demagogue exploiting division; it is the calculated disintegration of trust, truth, and institutional integrity. The spectacle of his political comeback is not a campaign, it is a siege on the foundations of liberal democracy, led from within its most powerful seat: the White House.

At the heart of this danger lies a simple but chilling reality: democracy is sustained not by brute force or even by law, but by trust. Trust in institutions, trust in elections, trust that when the votes are counted, the outcome reflects the will of the people. It is a delicate agreement, and once severed, what fills the vacuum is not freedom, but fear. This is the essential logic of autocracy. Trust must be annihilated so that terror, confusion, and contr…