When people talk about threat to democracy or institutions, what they mean is threat to democrats or democratically run institutions. 

When democrats storm the White House or try to jail their political opponent or stage a coup on their own candidate, this is good for democracy because it serves the democrat party.

agree this is what in part Dems are conveying with this phrasing.

But the stuff that happened in 2020 (asking the GA election guy to find votes, Jan 6th, calling election rigged repeatedly) are certainly beyond the pale to democratically run organizations writ large

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I agree it’s bad, I just think what dems do is worse. Balaji explains