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This is more or less the core argument of our book. We need to elect a pro-democracy president and congress, otherwise we'll lose the republic for good.
The GOP elites aren't dummies. They know the country is getting more diverse and more unequal, and they know that electorate doesn't like their agenda. They could moderate, but instead they seek to systematically make democracy less representative.
We lead the book with this doozy of a quote:

"I don’t want everybody to vote . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down. "

It's from Paul Weyrich, an architect of the modern GOP. His analysis is correct.
Thing is, that quote is 4 decades old! Trump is a grotesque, bile-spewing symptom, but he's a SYMPTOM of something much worse. Long after he's gone, the forces that allowed him to rise and thrive will remain.
Not to get too dramatic, but we view American democracy in pretty existential terms right now. In 15 months, we could have a pro-democracy congress and president passing republic-saving legislation. Or we'll be on the road to permanent white plutocracy.
Anyway, we go into details in the book, along with a pretty actionable plan on how to save American democracy before it's too late. /end book.indivisible.org
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