That's nice, but we're talking about the GOP right now.

Democratic governance for whom?

A privileged few, elected by a similarly privileged citizenry, wielded political authority through a monopoly on the force of violence. Ancient Athens for the poor, for women, and for non-Greeks was a dictatorship.

while I get and in many ways agree with the sentiment, it is truthful to assert that there was a time when if the Republican Party lost elections, they would actually change their platform and try to win back voters. As American popular culture has shifted more and more to the left, however, now that it's pretty much unthinkable for the electoral map of 1984 to happen again, and they see it as an existential threat.

Problem is so are many of the judges that would theoretically see his case. The theocratic, white ethno-project has been incubating in the United States since the 70s. Democrats are too spineless to attempt to balance the Supreme Court, and all the appointees that have been made to the lower circuits will take time to be felt - time I don't think the US has before it risks going the way of the Weimar Republic.

The quotation marks are precisely why I changed the headline to something that doesn't need quotes but is still accurate and won't open up slander/libel.

The American right-wing doesn't care about Democracy. It only supports democratic institutions when the demographics benefit them. While it feels out of place, this sort of behaviour is in my view, more in line with American history than you'd think. It took the Supreme Court multiple times to get the states to follow it whenever it ruled in favour of people, rights, and freedom in the 1800s, but whenever it ruled that slaves weren't people, those rulings were of course respected.

Rubber-stamp legislature that will refuse to hear any complaints.

Yes, but the article puts each in quotes, meaning it's referring to what sources have said as opposed to making the statement itself - I wanted to use similar language as to how these events get reported on in US media when they happen outside of the country.

They need to actually have an airtight cause to remove them - plus I am not sure if this is a Florida Governor power or if other governors have similar powers. Midwestern Dems are using their political power though, such as the new Wisconsin Democrat-controlled Supreme Court: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dfKZzOeAJs

It having its pros and cons isn't really a counter-argument for its adoption as our economic model.

While I think this is true to a degree, I also think they do operate consistently along some warped principles as well - for instance: "No one can tell me what to do, but I can tell others". Prosecuting Trump is Communism because he's above criticism as the Leader, and thus all these court proceedings must be a bad-faith effort to remove him from power pre-emptively. The inverse applies to Biden - nothing he does is seen in good faith, and every bad thing imaginable about him MUST be true.

Of course it does, can't have CNN's viewers dwell on the real-time collapse of our ecosystems and economy, they might start ti demand action!