Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.Greenfield’s inflammatory statements are only slight exaggerations. His scenario is frighteningly plausible.
When you consistently reject the results of elections that you don’t win, what you want is a dictatorship. Your very own dictatorship.
The only legitimate exercise of power in this country, according to the left, is its own. Whenever Republicans exercise power, it’s inherently illegitimate.
Democracy enshrines the public will as inviolate. Thus it is inherently unstable when the public will becomes anti-democratic (as sometimes happens).
