Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias wants you to believe that he wants to save democracy — by, conveniently, electing Democrats. But his partisanship isn’t the biggest red flag.

Elias’s attempt to hold himself up as democracy’s great defender is most complicated by his role in funding and spreading British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited anti-Trump dossier while he served as the Hillary Clinton campaign’s general counsel. Those actions, as well as his behavior since then, have undermined the very democratic process of which he claims to be a champion.