Can American Democracy survive its electorate?

In the face of overwhelming evidence, tens of millions of people have demonstrated they are willing to vote for an amoral, megalomaniacal con artist. Worse, many of their elected representatives are so fearful of their constituents, they were unwilling to defend the U.S. Constitution and the citizens of this country. That was clearly demonstrated when the Senate twice declined to do its Constitutional duty to remove and block from reinstatement, the impeached President Trump despite very convincing evidence of wrongdoing.  The effort to resist both times was headed by Senator Mitch McConnell, whom Trump personally denigrated by calling him among other nasty things, a “dumb son of a bitch,” a “stone cold loser,” and a “piece of shit.”

Consider the experiences of Sarah Longwell, a quite conservative political strategist, who conducts focus groups to ascertain the thinking of potential voters on a variety of issues.  Strikingly, she recently interviewed a group of Iowa Republican voters, all of whom believed that the indictment of […]