The End of America

Historians of the future may well ask when American democracy ended. The answer that they are likely to settle on is that democracy ended when one party refused to debate or vote on a Supreme Court nominee simply because he was chosen by a president of the other party. That was the moment when Republicans finally fully signaled that they had no belief in American democracy, its norms or processes. That was the moment when it became clear that their agenda was to dismantle the United States by any means necessary.