Donald Trump’s Republican Party is an authoritarian project. And for the time being, there is no form of Republican politics that is consistent with democracy. jonathanchait writes
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s bid to secure an unelected second term, his former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, in an extensive interview with Tim Alberta, registered her disgust: “He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we can’t let that ever happen again.” According to Haley’s self-exonerating account, Trump had changed in a way she failed to anticipate.
Kagan’s provocation irritated his former allies because it closed off any pretense that Republicans engage in normal politics without endangering the republic. Five years ago, they could hyperventilate about Hillary Clinton’s email server while denying they had any connection to Trump’s already evident threat to democracy. Now, all plausible deniability is gone.
Mitt Romney, the bravest of the Republican Trump critics in the Senate, explained that he was supporting his party’s filibuster on a Democratic plan to lift the debt ceiling. “We’re not voting in any way to help raise the debt ceiling,” he told reporters. “As a group, we are all together.
Douthat’s case for complacency had several glaring flaws. First, by relying heavily on Trump’s bumbling execution of his last coup attempt, it assumed his next efforts would meet the same fate. This ignores his energetic and successful scheming to target and replace Republican officials who stood in his way. Republicans removed Liz Cheney from their leadership over her refusal to let Trump’s coup go.
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