Trygve Olson and Joe Trippi are kind of like the political odd couple. Trygve hails from the right and Joe from the left but now they're joining forces against fascism
We need to quit calling GOP The Party of Lincoln and rechristen them The Party of Trump. They gave up Lincoln’s values a long time ago.
The bottom line is pretty straightforward. In a two-party system, both parties will eventually hold office. If one of those parties has turned against democratic norms, it will eventually hold power and, well, enact its preferences.
It is extremely unlikely that rank-and-file voters would prevent such a party from taking power; people simply don’t vote based on that kind of abstraction. And thanks to partisan polarization, most voters will automatically support their team in any event. Democracy depends on a willingness to lose elections. If that willingness starts wavering — as it seems to be for Trump and his allies and their Big Lie — we’re in trouble.
Elected officials should be strengthening laws and institutions to make it harder for anti-democratic forces to succeed.