by Joe Matthews Please don’t save democracy. If you’re a politician — stop promising to save it. Just stop trying. Because you can’t. Democracy isn’t something you save. The sooner we stop talking about saving democracy, the better off democracy will be. Our mindless recitation of “saving democracy” — everyone from President Biden to Sascha Baron Cohen has pledged its rescue — demonstrates how little we understand about the governing systems that organize our lives. To start, the words “democracy” and “save” don’t fit together. Democracy is not a penalty shot saved by a goalkeeper. Democracy i…