Voting rights. Hence their frantic elimination of them in States they control. And when they control the House, Senate and Presidency again, they'll do so federally. By then though it'll be too late. So we had best pass federal legislation to preserve voting rights to win elections and maintain control of government. If not we're doomed to repeat a very dark history.
Some quotes below from Steven Levitsky in How Democracies Die. I'd add that he's being far too generous by calling it merely authoritarianism. It's fascism, plain and simple. I'd also add that the steps they're taking have gone long past "barely visible" into blatant defiance of law and order with complete destruction of democracy up to and including violent overthrow. Jan. 6 was just the beginning.
"Democracies may die at the hands not of generals but of elected leaders—presidents or prime ministers who subvert the very process that brought them to power. Some of these leaders dismantle democracy quickly, as Hitler did in the wake of the 1933 Reichstag fire in Germany. More often, though, democracies erode slowly, in barely visible steps."
"This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and 'weaponizing' the courts and other neutral agencies, buying off the media and the private sector (or bullying them into silence), and rewriting the rules of politics to tilt the playing field against opponents. The tragic paradox of the electoral route to authoritarianism is that democracy’s assassins use the very institutions of democracy—gradually, subtly, and even legally—to kill it."
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