I rarely post Steve Schmidt, but, PLEASE, DU, read this.

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44. Imho

There is no longer a Democratic party, at least at the national level. The Republicans killed the two party paradigm when they eschewed the brokered convention that was being discussed in 2015 and put their party before country, choosing Trump as their Strong Leader. In order for a democracy to work there have to be at least two viable parties which are dedicated to democracy. The US only had two viable parties and the Republicans knew that giving their party to the authoritarians, who are not committed to democracy, would cripple democracy in the US. Now there is only the anti-democratic authoritarian party, and everyone else who will fight together against the authoritarian takeover. Unless and until the corporate Republicans can take their party back or raise a new viable party democracy in the US will be one election away from extinction. Apparently this is not intuitively obvious to everyone now, but with each election, whether a real election or a sham election under an authoritarian regime, it will become more obvious.