In the last four years, Democrats have escalated from echoing President Joe Biden‘s assertion that decency is on the ballot to now threatening that democracy itself is at stake, but neither the party in panic nor the president imploding in public seem to really believe this.

Despite accusing Trump of posing a greater risk to democracy itself than “his old pal Putin” and claiming the contemporary Republican Party under the former president’s purview is “worse” than literal Jim Crow segregationists such as Strom Thurmond, Biden seems positively sanguine at the prospect of losing his reelection bid to a man he’s accused of treason.