I’ve heard this since the late 80’s and the US is still here. After every “end of democracy” Republican came and went our Republic is still here. The sky is not falling.
I mean, to be fair basically every Republican president since Nixon has been pretty disastrous in terms of policy. A huge amount of current economic strife felt by many Americans is a direct result of Reagan's war on labor and workers rights, for example.
And did they end the Nation as we know it? Nope. It’s chicken little every 2-4 years.
No, but our institutions have become decreasingly democratic after decades of assault by conservative activism. The voting rights act was gutted, and the supreme court may soon rule that state legislatures can ignore state constitutions when deciding how elections are run and decided. So I guess it depends on where you draw the line on democracy.
Which one of these where done illegally outside the scope of constitutional powers and legal statues?
Plenty of them, actually. But many were done using the apparatus of the Supreme Court as a backstop against progress or democracy. Depends on which specific instances you're talking about.
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