When Did It Become Acceptable To Oppose Democracy?
With the midterm elections fast approaching, now is the time to stand up in every town square and support pro-democracy candidates.

With the midterm elections fast approaching, now is the time to stand up in every town square and support pro-democracy candidates.
When former President Donald Trump launched his post-election assault on democracy, he did not start with violence; he started with courts.
Now is the time for Democrats to intensify their focus on redistricting, not turn away.
The least surprising revelation of this week’s Jan. 6 hearings is that Rudy Giuliani was in the White House on election night in 2020 offering drunken advice to Donald Trump.
We are one or two elections away from potentially losing our democracy for a generation or more. We have the ability to stop that from happening. But only if we all act together.
It should come as no surprise that Republicans in states across the country are already applying Trump’s 2020 blueprint to 2022 and 2024.
A month before the 2020 election, Republican Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) tweeted, “Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity [sic] are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.”
After months of hearing Republicans cry fraud in parking lots, in legislative chambers and on Fox News, judges are now asking, “where’s the fraud?”
As uncomfortable as it is to discuss, we need to establish before the election the framework for assessing whether an election meets the threshold of free and fair and, more importantly, what we will do if it does not.
While Republicans have made reforming voting rules to disenfranchise voters a priority, fewer Democrats have used their majorities to make voting easier. While there are some exceptions, there is still more to be done everywhere.