Subversion by Leadership

At this point in How Democracies Die I am learning about various democracies which have been subverted by leaders who were legitimately elected.  Such a leader has been Orban.  Another is Erdogan.  A third could have been Trump had he not been stopped.

So we are in the unenviable situation in the U.S. of having not only a menace represented by a certain velocitous disdain for anyone different from oneself, from the far-right --  we also have an unrestrained and unrepentant former President who is being shown to be not only authoritarian but a subvert-er of democracy.  This is the grave danger we face.  Our current peril must not be ignored. 

The greatest danger we face other than an increasingly organized far-right movement, are certain members of the press who continue to treat the Republican Party as a legitimate political party.  This is no longer true of the Party, and is grossly unfair to the country.  .  Certainly there are still decent people attached to the Republican Party.  But the party itself is led by election-deniers and those who would weaken our democratic norms if necessary to gain or stay in power.  This is the looming tragedy of our time.  Some think the tragedy has already occurred, for many suffering people.