Republicans Are a Threat to Democracy

Jonathan Bernstein: “How worried should we be about the state of democracy in the U.S.? A group of leading political scientists who study the issue say: a lot. A whole lot. In fact, they say: ‘our entire democracy is now at risk.’ They’re correct. If they had asked me, I would’ve signed on.”

“The problem is easy enough to describe. In a two-party political system, one party, the Republican Party, has in large part turned antidemocratic. That party will eventually be voted into office, and if it implements nationally the policies that some of its leading politicians have advocated — and in some cases advanced at the state level — it’s possible that it will succeed in seriously harming democracy.”