A perfect example of Kontorovich's point is the the weekly demonstrations in Tel Aviv aiming to overthrow the democratically elected government of Israel by means of a Color Revolution. These demonstrations use the slogan of "Democracy" and one of the key political groupings backing these demonstrations changed its name to The Democrats. This is very cynical because a color revolution is the opposite of democracy.
Kontorovich is correct that democracy is democracy, not the preferences of the elites.
The preferences of the elites are sometimes 180 degrees off. An example soon to be classic is Kamala Harris' making a big deal of stopping Israel's democratically elected government from going into Rafah because “I have studied the maps, there's nowhere for [civilians] to go”. Sinwar was killed in Rafah. Sinwar was in Rafah in August with the 6 hostages who were executed by Hamas. If Israel listened to Harris and didn't go into Rafah, Sinwar would still be alive and terrorizing both Jews and Arabs. Israel's democratically elected government made the right call by going into Rafah, and Harris and the American elites showed how much they are out of touch with reality.
There may be nothing undemocratic about a country seeking to limit the domestic influence of foreign sovereigns but I think it could violate the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
A perfect example of Kontorovich's point is the the weekly demonstrations in Tel Aviv aiming to overthrow the democratically elected government of Israel by means of a Color Revolution. These demonstrations use the slogan of "Democracy" and one of the key political groupings backing these demonstrations changed its name to The Democrats. This is very cynical because a color revolution is the opposite of democracy.
The weekly demonstrations in Israel against the judicial overhaul were inspired by work by the elites at Harvard's Kennedy School that color revolutions that were "able to mobilize at least 3.5 percent of the population were uniformly successful": https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/advocacy-social-movements/paths-resistance-erica-chenoweths-research
Kontorovich is correct that democracy is democracy, not the preferences of the elites.
The preferences of the elites are sometimes 180 degrees off. An example soon to be classic is Kamala Harris' making a big deal of stopping Israel's democratically elected government from going into Rafah because “I have studied the maps, there's nowhere for [civilians] to go”. Sinwar was killed in Rafah. Sinwar was in Rafah in August with the 6 hostages who were executed by Hamas. If Israel listened to Harris and didn't go into Rafah, Sinwar would still be alive and terrorizing both Jews and Arabs. Israel's democratically elected government made the right call by going into Rafah, and Harris and the American elites showed how much they are out of touch with reality.
There may be nothing undemocratic about a country seeking to limit the domestic influence of foreign sovereigns but I think it could violate the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.