An article in The Guardian asks: Is America heading to a place where it can no longer call itself a democracy?
I offer once again these reminders as among possible answers to that question.
“The radicalization of the Republican Party has outpaced what even most critical observers imagined. We need to grapple with what that should mean for our expectations going forward and start thinking about real worst-case scenarios”.
“And all indications are that another group of Republicans, the six GOP appointees on the U.S. Supreme Court, either embrace the party’s anti-democratic drift or aren’t going to do much to halt it”.
“. . . 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”.
Georgetown University Historian Thomas Zimmer
