Stephan:   The assault by the Republican Party on American democracy is so multi-faceted that is hard to keep all the pieces straight, and see them as oriented towards a single objective: Keep a shrinking racist White minority in power whatever it takes. You probably noticed for instance the deafening silence of Congressional Republicans who have nothing to say about criminal Trump's dinner with an explicit White supremacy, antisemitic loudmouth. Or the Republican gerrymandering and suppression of voting by people of color. The move in Red state legislatures to remove any regulations on openly carrying firearms. It is this last manifestation of the Republican anti-democratic efforts that may be the source of the most violence. As this article describes there are increasing reports, particularly in Red states, of White militia thugs threatening violence against voters whose choices they do not like. It is an amalgam of America's obsessive gun psychosis, and MAGAt politics, and it is going to result in violence and death. Yet, once again, there is nothing but silence coming from Republican leaders. Does that surprise you? It doesn't surprise me because we now have one party that does not like or support democracy in the United States because they know they are a minority and will not stay in power in a healthy democracy.