The first part is correct. Obviously when the economic landscape is as rough as it is, to win you're going to have to attack your opponent as alt right, Christian nationalist, conspiracy laden, self righteous violent loons because that should transcend an economic low.
Ya know, this kind of fear messaging.
The 'threat against democracy' is because Bannon and Stone has bragged about their game plan (intimidate with poll watchers, threaten election workers so they quit as 1 in 3 have, put in alt right election deniers in positions to verify elections, muck up election day to slow down and suppress the voting, then if you still lose claim fraud and try to have the race kicked to the state or state courts).
In summary putting election deniers, particularly fact lacking deniers into positions to determine the winners of elections is a threat to having real free and fair elections.
So it's critical that we get out and vote to make sure these nutbags don't get into those positions.
Who knows how we'll be able to get them out if our elections become irrelevant so, try to prevent it now.
That's not even considering how our faith in our elections are going to be shaken by the left if these loons start overriding votes.
That won't be pretty.