Gloves off.

Sources:

To Save Democracy, We Need a Few Good Dictators https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-01/russia-ukraine-war-to-save-global-democracy-sign-up-a-few-good-dictators

Bloomberg is a full-throated proponent of the China Model and publishes content that mirrors the CCP's anti-democracy talking points.

Opinion: It’s time to switch to preference primaries https://web.archive.org/web/20200219060955/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/18/fix-primaries-let-elites-decide/

Just as Winston Smith witnessed revisionism at the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984, we can witness it at The Washington Post. The Original title was "It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president" as can be seen at The Internet Archive:

It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president https://web.archive.org/web/20200219060955/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/18/fix-primaries-let-elites-decide/

Democracy works better when there is less of it https://www.ft.com/content/f68c13a4-1130-49d5-b3c6-2270711d819e

The struggle is not left vs. right, but authoritarianism vs. freedom.