Democracy is a Threat to American Authoritarians

You might say I am running like a headless chicken screaming about the threat to American Democracy with no cause. Never mind January 6 was a direct attack on that democracy. It was a coup attempt, and people have been charged with seditious conspiracy. So spare me this the this was no sedition.

So now we have evidence of how deep the disdain for democratic norms is within the GOP. The first of these came from a Senate candidate. The other, was a sitting US Senator. These would have been fringe views even two decades ago. Now they are normal…