Farcical summit won’t save Biden or democracy


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Sounding like a Quaalude Savior, President Biden droned to foreign leaders Wednesday about how he’ll rescue world democracy. Suffering from a cold, Biden recited the “inflection point of history” cliché he hustled at the first Summit for Democracy in December 2021. Biden promised that “we’re seeing real indicatiors [sic]” that “we are turning the tide” in favor of democracy around the globe. Practically no one not on Biden’s payroll agrees. Democracy last year “declined around the world for the 17th consecutive year,” per Freedom House. Twice as many nations are veering “toward authoritarianism” as toward democracy, The Economist says. Most...