Trump's plan openly disregards presidential elections for determining who holds the presidency

[Tom Rinaldo]

4. Democrats tend to play by the rules as they were intended.

As an example we accept that a well functioning democracy does everything that it can to assure that all of it's citizens get to exercise the right to vote. Not so Republicans obviously. I don't suggest that Democrats should do otherwise than play by rules as they were intended, because that is a hallmark of accepting true democratic norms, which is a core belief for Democrats.

Were Democrats not to control the House right now I think the outlook would be far more perilous. Ultimately we have managed as a democracy this long because enough people across various party lines have shared a fundamental belief in the sanctity of core democratic norms and procedures. The more that shared set of values erodes within the Republican Party the more fragile our democracy becomes.