there may not be any route back.

Historian Thomas Zimmer has noted that the current struggle over U.S. democracy is akin to a world historical event. Yet from Republicans there is dead air or worse: No discernible move, anywhere, to meaningfully renounce the party’s continued insurrectionist drift.

How far down the path to democratic instability this will take us remains to be seen. Cheney plainly believes — and this view is alarmingly shared by experts in democratic breakdown — that unless Republicans execute a fundamental turnaround, there may not be any route back.

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