Some might point out that only 28 percent of U.S. voters are registered as Republicans.
True, but Republican-leaning independents constitute another 17 percent, and actual swing voters are relatively rare.
So the best-case scenario is that only 14 percent of voters are really dedicated to installing a fascist dictatorship.
However, history tells us that that is a sufficient critical mass to send a country spinning into horror.
In short, you don’t need all that many people dedicated to dictatorship, theocracy, or any other awful possibility to absolutely collapse a country into barbarism.
(I have few other words for the horrors I saw committed by insurgents in Iraq over that time period.).
The other party is a vaguely center-left coalition, too weak to bring about effective change because the country’s Constitution and societal fragmentation make it politically and legally impossible. »