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Trump wasn't the first Republican to pull down the structure
of democracy. The GOP went after the notion that "politics stops when it comes to foreign policy" when Obama became President. They extended the election season to the whole time during George W. Bush's Presidency. They erased that 'government is here to help' under Ronald Reagan. And now they destroy how the Supreme Court works or threaten to. Don't let them fool us into blaming Trump for democracy's sudden precariousness when Trump loses. The GOP has been pulling down the norms of democracy for 30 years.