Since the 2016 ascent of Donald Trump, politicos and the media have been warning that rural white America now poses an existential threat to democracy. So dangerous are what Joe Biden has called “semi-fascists” and “ultra-maga” reactionaries that they apparently must be stopped by extraordinary—and even extra-constitutional—means. As such, the Left’s implicit agenda is to destroy democracy as we knew it in order to save it. And one corollary is the easy projection of its own unprecedented attacks on constitutional norms—such as the seemingly endless attempts to keep Trump off the ballot or to convict him of various concocted offenses—onto the source of their paranoias.
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