Washington Post: A weakening democracy lurks in America

An article in this newspaper notes that last week, widespread bomb threats led to the evacuation of more than a dozen government buildings in Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Wisconsin and many other US cities. Federal authorities have arrested a man for threatening to kill a congressman and his children. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Brandon Williams, two Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives, also faced threats on Christmas Day. In recent years (especially since the 2020 election), these types of malicious activities have become more frequent in the United States. According to the Washington Post, the Maine Secretary of State and the Colorado Supreme Court judge who recently ruled Donald Trump ineligible to run in those states are facing a wave of threats against them. The newspaper cited statements from US Attorney General Merrick Garland and Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Jill Karowski, who called the wave of threats against state and federal employees “extremely troubling” amid the 2024 US election campaign. The Washington Post quoted Steven Levitsky, a Harvard University professor, who warned of weakening democracy in the United States and wrote: "Widespread political violence (after the January 6 riot) means people don't feel safe because at the same time we are witnessing how “we widely disseminate virtual violence on social networks.”