"By far the biggest problem is the Republican Party. Presented with a
clear chance to move on from Trumpism after the Jan. 6 attack on the
Capitol, the GOP has instead continued its drift toward anti-democratic action and white grievance.
The future looks scary. A Republican-controlled House could attempt to
impeach Biden in 2023 and 2024 on basically any pretext, as payback for
Trump’s two impeachments. If Republicans win the governorships of
Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin next year, taking total control in those key swing states, they could impose all kinds of electoral barriers for the next presidential election. The Republicans are laying the groundwork to refuse to certify a 2024 Democratic presidential victory should the GOP hold a House majority. [snip]
"...[M]oderate Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans either don’t appreciate the direness of the situation or don’t care. Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin III (W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) seem to value their reputations as being bipartisan more than protecting the voting rights of people who look like me. Republican Sen. Mitt Romney’s (Utah) response to a law clearly designed to make it harder for liberal-leaning people in Georgia to cast ballots was to criticize … the media for covering the law too harshly.
"I hope I am overly alarmed about all of this. But I don’t think I am. Perhaps democracy dies faster in darkness. But it could also die slowly in the light, as all of us watched but didn’t do enough to save it." -- Perry Bacon, Jr., on reasons why "American democracy is in even worse shape than you think." No surprises here, but he touches all the bases.
