This week, Donald Trump’s effort to lie, threaten, and finagle his way to a second presidential term he did not win at the ballot box comes to an end, and we can and should be relieved.
But we should also be terrified. Though Trump has lost, Trumpism’s hold on the Republican Party is if anything stronger than ever, particularly the way he has reconfigured their view of elections. And sooner or later—perhaps just four years from now—it will bring us to a crisis of democracy that will make the one we just endured look civil and orderly.
It’s entirely possible that we’ll look back and say that 2020 was a dry run for the collapse of the American electoral system.
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