Can democracy survive the defenders of democracy ? 

The Washington Post even ran an op-ed titled, A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.

Many Americans have tuned out the overheated rhetoric, as shown by Donald Trump s continuing lead in many polls even after his conviction in Manhattan. The warnings also ignore that our system has checks and balances that protected democracy for centuries as the world s oldest and most successful constitutional system. These dire predictions would require all three branches to fail in an unprecedented fashion.

While these figures cite the Capitol riot on Jan 6., 2021 as evidence of the pending collapse of democracy, the system worked as designed on that day. Congress refused to be deterred by the riot and virtually every court (including many presided over by Trump-appointed judges) rejected challenges to the election.

The most obvious threats today to the democratic system are coming from the left, not the right. 

via thehill.com

Jonathan Turley.