Another warning about radical right attacks on democracy

I'm not alone:

Some other people that believe the 

Republican Party has become fascist

The warnings are coming fast and furious these days. Apparently, more people are waking up to what we are in the midst of and how deadly serious this is. A Washington Post opinion piece comments on a new report warning that the US is now close to civil war. The WaPo opinion comments:

Barbara F. Walter, a political science professor at the University of California at San Diego, serves on a CIA advisory panel called the Political Instability Task Force that monitors countries around the world and predicts which of them are most at risk of deteriorating into violence. By law, the task force can’t assess what’s happening within the United States, but Walter, a longtime friend who has spent her career studying conflicts in Syria, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Rwanda, Angola, Nicaragua and elsewhere, applied the predictive techniques herself to this country.

Her bottom line: “We are closer to civil war than any of us would like to believe.” She lays out the argument in detail in her must-read book, “How Civil Wars Start,” out in January. “No one wants to believe that their beloved democracy is in decline, or headed toward war,” she writes. But, “if you were an analyst in a foreign country looking at events in America — the same way you’d look at events in Ukraine or the Ivory Coast or Venezuela — you would go down a checklist, assessing each of the conditions that make civil war likely. And what you would find is that the United States, a democracy founded more than two centuries ago, has entered very dangerous territory.”

Indeed, the United States has already gone through what the CIA identifies as the first two phases of insurgency — the “pre-insurgency” and “incipient conflict” phases — and only time will tell whether the final phase, “open insurgency,” began with the sacking of the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters on Jan. 6.

Things deteriorated so dramatically under Trump, in fact, that the United States no longer technically qualifies as a democracy. Citing the Center for Systemic Peace’s “Polity” data set — the one the CIA task force has found to be most helpful in predicting instability and violence — Walter writes that the United States is now an “anocracy,” somewhere between a democracy and an autocratic state.

U.S. democracy had received the Polity index’s top score of 10, or close to it, for much of its history. But in the five years of the Trump era, it tumbled precipitously into the anocracy zone; by the end of his presidency, the U.S. score had fallen to a 5, making the country a partial democracy for the first time since 1800. “We are no longer the world’s oldest continuous democracy,” Walter writes. “That honor is now held by Switzerland, followed by New Zealand, and then Canada. We are no longer a peer to nations like Canada, Costa Rica, and Japan, which are all rated a +10 on the Polity index.”  

Others have reached similar findings. The Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance put the United States on a list of “backsliding democracies” in a report last month. “The United States, the bastion of global democracy, fell victim to authoritarian tendencies itself," the report said. And a new survey by the academic consortium Bright Line Watch found that 17 percent of those who identify strongly as Republicans support the use of violence to restore Trump to power, and 39 percent favor doing everything possible to prevent Democrats from governing effectively.

Note that 17% of staunch Republicans support violence to restore Trump to power and 39% want to stop the Democrats from governing. Millions now support violence to restore Trump. And, Americans who are open to the use of violence is not limited to just Republicans.

Hey, Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema, are you two yahoos listening, or are you just corrupt dolts who do not care about democracy or even hate it? Keep on blocking law to protect voting rights and you two traitors will get what you are asking for, namely a Christofascist kleptocracy.

Questions: 

1. Is this just more baseless Democratic Party alarmism, or is the US democracy under an intense ongoing attack by the Republican Party and its propagandists, allies, and financial backers (liar Fox News, greedy Christian nationalists, the deranged Koch Leviathan, etc.)? 

2. Have Americans been warned enough yet? (probably not)

3. How does responsibility for America's descent into fascist tyranny lie?

My take on it:

Republican Party and its supporters, lies and rhetoric: ~80%

Democratic Party and its supporters, lies and rhetoric: ~12%

Everything else, e.g., Russia, non-voters, corporate liars and their propaganda, etc.: ~8%