Let's get one thing straight: it's not your daddy's Republican Party anymore. The GOP has been entirely taken over by an authoritarian (fascist) movement called MAGA (Trumpism). This cancer has spread to every part of the Party formerly known as the GOP. Any normal Republican who has not pledged fealty to Trump has, through threat of primary challenge or threat of outright physical violence, been purged from the Party. (Why do you think "Republicans" in Congress, with all these mass shootings, are so unwilling to support the kind of reasonable gun control legislation favored by 80% of Americans? Because the threat of violence is working for them, that's why.) And don't think that convicting the Done Cheato will put an end to MAGA. It has moved beyond Trump himself. It does not need the indicted former president. MAGA is a democracy-ending zombie apocalypse. It must be stopped at all costs. How did we come to this? One word: gerrymandering. Gerrymandering allows only the most extreme candidate to win a primary election. Moderates are pushed out. This flaw in our electoral system has given MAGA an outsized presence in our politics. To a certain extent, we already have minority rule. Sparsely populated states get two senators, just like densely populated ones. And the winner-take-all method of counting electoral college votes employed by most states also tilts the playing field in favor of rural states. So let's face it. Democrats don't just have to beat MAGA; they have to beat it convincingly, the way they did in 2020. And if we're really lucky, that will be enough... for now.