“Not only in the US, but around the world, the basic principles of democracy are being questioned. We’re not arguing about politics, we’re arguing about the rules of the game that we agreed upon before, right? The idea was that we would have an election and whoever gets the most votes wins. A loser admits defeat, comes back and tries to win another time,” Obama said in the broadcast of the show’s final episode. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.

The moderator asked how he felt when Democrats had to put him on the campaign trail in nearly every state to help the candidates there. Although the Democrats retained their majority in the Senate, they lost control of the House.

But, above all, in all kinds of by-elections 176 candidates won Republicans, whom the media has called “election deniers.”

They blatantly disowned the results of the 2020 presidential election, when incumbent Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden.

While there is no evidence of widespread or systemic election fraud, most Trump supporters still “talk about election theft.” This fact was also reflected in the unprecedented attack on the Capitol building last January 6, which left five people dead.

“Now, for a number of different reasons, we see the feeling creeping in here that if the result isn’t what we want, we can do whatever we want and say whatever we want to win. It’s very dangerous. It’s not just happening in US, but when it happens in the US, it sends a signal around the world that democracy is weakening. That’s why I think it’s so important for us to put our homes in order,” Obama continued.