Pelosi attack shocks country on edge about democracy threats
WASHINGTON (AP) — An America that can already feel like it’s hurtling toward political disintegration…
[AP doesn't used wordage like political disintegration lightly.]
...extremism that has coursed through
American politics in recent years, adding to a sense of foreboding with
the Nov. 8 election nearly at hand.
Armed watchers are staking out ballot drop boxes in Arizona to guard against false conspiracies about voter fraud. Threats against members of Congress have risen to historic levels. Public opinion surveys show fears for a fragile democracy and even of a civil war. Former President Donald Trump continues to deny that he lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden, and his acolytes are attempting to consolidate their power over future elections.
Power in democracies is diffused. Consolidation of power after democratic or quasi-democratic elections is what wanna-be one party states do.
