Major news outlets warn democracy imperiled globally in 2024, voters could make 'wrong choice'

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Multiple news outlets claimed that the greatest threat to democracy around the world is voters electing right-wing leaders in 2024.

Various political crises, ranging from unprecedented waves of migration across the U.S. border and the Mediterranean Sea, to general criminality in the western world’s major cities, have caused voters to question the viability of certain liberal policies in the past few decades.

Several publications have argued recently that 2024 will be a uniquely pivotal year for human history, as the electoral cycles in countries around the globe align. As The Washington Post reported on Jan. 3, "More than 60 countries, with some 4 billion people, are set to stage national elections in 2024. That means roughly half the planet could go to the polls in what could be the greatest rolling spectacle of democracy in human history."

The Post’s world affairs columnist Ishaan Tharoor warned that "2024 brings [a] wave of elections with global democracy on the ballot" and that democracy "has ebbed over the past decade" in that "elections are still staged, but the underlying political culture seems to be shifting worldwide."

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"In society after society, illiberal values and politicians who embrace them are gaining ground," Tharoor wrote, later noting that "pivotal