The Associated Press spoke to several experts who believe the Republican Party has turned away from democracy in recent years.
“It’s not clear that the Republican Party is willing to accept defeat anymore,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist and co-author of the book “How Democracies Die.” “The party itself has become an anti-democratic force.”
“They’re laying the groundwork for a slow-motion insurrection,” said Mark Brewer, an election lawyer and former chair of the Michigan Democratic Party.
“The most motivated voters in America today are those who think the 2020 election was stolen,” said Daniel Squadron of The States Project, a Democratic group that tries to win state legislatures. “Acknowledging this is afoot requires such a leap from any core American value system that any of us have lived through.”