Like the social conservatives who get a seat on the bus but aren't allowed to drive it, the yahoos who think the press is a tool of the Democratic party are needed but should not be heeded by conservatives in power.
Mr. Rosen, the governor and his aides said without evidence, was a political operative, a tool of the Democratic-controlled Legislature, "the Dr. Kevorkian of numbers".
The chief justice should embrace the presence of television in the United States Supreme Court as an important tool of democratic empowerment.
I think that most of us see Twitter as a tool of a free and democratic society, and when not, as the tool of those fighting for one, the dissenters.
Ms. Medina contends that rather than a tool of technocratic centralization, Cybersyn was democratic in design and intent.
The new administration should act quickly to restore the effectiveness of this crucial tool of democratic oversight.
His opponents -- State Senator John J. Marchi, the Republican; Representative Mario Biaggi, the Conservative, and Assemblyman Albert H. Blumenthal, the Liberal -- labeled him a product of the Democratic machine, a tool of bosses like Meade H. Esposito, the Brooklyn leader, and a faceless vehicle for patronage.
Habermas further argued that instead of relying on national culture, the Germans should rely on constitutional patriotism, i.e. the values of a pluralistic liberal democratic constitution as a tool of unifying (West) Germany.
Astonishingly, it casts soft power as a tool of the Russian government's commitment to "universal democratic values" and "human rights" — Moscow style.
Later, at the press conference, Trump described him as both a liar and a tool of Democratic Party.
