You've overlooked the support of most of the GOP for Trump's 'stop the steal' bullshit and their downplaying the seriousness of the insurrection. Now they are pretending that the docs indictment is also no big deal.
hap0206, You say the only anti-democratic move has been Republican efforts to make it harder for minority groups to vote. Why did you totally ignore the very first paragraph
"In May 2017, Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey, crashing through the first of many important democratic norms. While FBI directors technically can be fired, they generally serve ten-year terms for the express purpose of ensuring their political independence and to ward off the inherent danger of an unscrupulous president turning the bureau into a partisan weapon to protect his friends and harass his enemies. There were banner headlines and special reports invoking Nixon’s infamous Saturday Night Massacre .. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/mysterious-comey-firing-brings-back-memories-of-nixon.html ."
Then, again right there for you the third paragraph:
"For a while, the national emergency was averted. The figure Trump selected to replace Comey, Christopher Wray, refused to endorse conspiracy theories that the agency had plotted to help Hillary Clinton win in 2016, sent agents to Mar-a-Lago when Trump declined to return classified documents, and generally failed to follow the Trumpist precept that crimes are committed by the other side and never by his own. For this reason, Wray too became a Republican hate object. Trump, now seeking to return to the White House, has pledged to fire Wray. Trump’s leading opponent in the GOP primary, Ron DeSantis, recently told Fox News he would also fire Wray. The two have fallen into a scrap over who would fire him harder. “DeSanctimonious is now making a show of promising to fire FBI Director Christopher Wray, but DeSantis voted FOR Wray’s confirmation in 2017, praising him as ‘talented, capable & highly respected,’” Trump’s campaign charges, surreally gliding over the fact that Trump himself chose Wray. (It is MAGA canon that Trump bears no blame for being repeatedly duped into hiring the many traitors in his midst.)
For decades before you had both sides respecting the independence of the FBI. Before Trump. The article continues from there:
"The tattered notion that Republicans must have any respect for the FBI’s independence has disintegrated completely. Now every FBI director is eminently fireable. It isn’t enough that the agency be led by a Republican (as every director in its history has been) or even that it be led by a Republican chosen by Trump. That the FBI director must be a loyal MAGA apparatchik is now every bit as much party dogma as “Border weak” or “Taxes bad.”
During Trump’s first term, violations of democratic norms came in sudden dramatic bursts attracting wide news coverage, and these efforts were often undone by a lack of planning and haphazard execution. January 6 is the most vivid example. The episode dramatized Trump’s desire and determination to secure an unelected second term, but the coup attempt lacked the firepower to pull it off."
As blackhawks incredulously had to remind you. Continuing again:
"Since Trump left office, the Republican Party’s anti-democratic turn has accelerated, but it has taken place quietly and deliberately with little drama or media attention. It has had the benefit of planning and the formation of a partywide consensus. And it is more insidious than anything a reelected Trump could come up with in a fit of pique.
Toward the end of Trump’s term, he set his mind to rooting out what he called the “deep state” — what might be more accurately described as public servants unwilling to flout the law or professional ethics. He handed the task to his body man Johnny McEntee .. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/fired-trump-loyalist-mcentee-to-handle-white-house-hiring.html , whose previous claim to fame had been throwing a football at a series of unlikely targets in a viral video and who is currently one of the impresarios behind a conservative dating app. McEntee’s method of purging the workforce consisted mainly of quizzing various staffers on their beliefs about the great orange leader.
Trump has since formed a plan called “Schedule F .. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/07/trump-world-plans-to-take-over-the-deep-state.html ,” a bureaucratic work-around that would enable him to replace thousands of nonpolitical bureaucrats with reliable partisans. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, has developed a detailed proposal for using this tool to cleanse the deep state.
DeSantis has enthusiastically adopted the plan and is attacking Trump for failing to cull his staff ruthlessly enough."
All anti-democratic actions which Putin most certainly carried out on his way to where he is.
You said - "Have no idea what this could mean The GOP’s Authoritarian Acceleration Internal resistance to its anti-democratic turn has all but vanished The only "anti-democratic" turn the repubs advocated was voter ID -- does the above mean we no longer advocated voter ID -- what a blow if true"
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