The Republican Party Is Dead
The Republican Party used to stand for something. You can argue about whether what it stood for was good or bad, but it had a platform. It had principles. It had ideas that existed independently of any single person.
That party is gone.
What replaced it is not a political party. It is a loyalty structure built around one man. And the psychology behind how that happened is not new. It is one of the most documented patterns in the history of democratic collapse.
The Fateful Alliance
In 2018, political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt at Harvard University published How Democracies…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.