General Discussion

even stealing elections through treasonous negotiations at the Paris Peace Talks and then with the ayatollahs in Iran, even stealing money like Nixon and Agnew, the Republicans had some level of commitment to democracy.

That commitment changed in 2015 when the Republicans chose an authoritarian Strong Leader who was not committed to democracy to be their candidate for president. They knew what they were doing, they were going to have a brokered convention to choose another candidate but they realized that they could not win without Trump, so they put party before country. Several Republican leaders refused to support Trump, something unheard of in decades.

And now we have a country with a two party system in which one of the parties is not committed to democracy.

Either the Republican party breaks or US democracy will break.