The Republican Party is dying. Trumpism is still alive.

Donald Trump will drag the party with him in the fall.

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Nominate me Trump, he’s crushed, ”Lindsey Graham wrote in 2016. The senator was one of the strongest critics of Trump in the Republican Party, at the time.

Like most others, he has a different opinion. Now Graham is one of Trump’s most loyal supporters.

The senator is doing well too. Trump succeeds in crushing the Republican Party.

“Nobody voted “Republicans will support Trump’s statement,” Rick Santorum told CNN, after the president made strong allegations of voter fraud shortly after the election.

Santorum was one of Trump’s opponents in the nomination before the 2016 election.

Trump made the accusations without giving a single proof, and they have a lot to do. But Republicans don’t need proof to support their big side.

Santorum made a big mistake. Many Republicans didn’t just support Trump’s claims. The party has endorsed conspiracy theories.

The party has the support a long series of trials, which have been rejected one by one in court. Trump’s lawyers will not make allegations of voter fraud, then they could lose their license or end up in prison.

It is a crime to lie to a judge.

That is why the party, the electorate of its people and Trump use the press and social networks to spread the theory that Donald Trump really won the election.

Republicans have tried to reverse the result in various of the soft lash states. But they have also tried to get Trump to win in Michigan, a state that Biden won with 150,000 votes, forcing board members to reject hundreds of thousands of votes.

The party that says it supports the soldiers has tried to reject the soldiers’ mail-in ballots because they are temporarily stationed in another state than the one they have the right to vote.

Trump has “stress tests democracy, “Alexander Burns writes in the New York Times. According to him, it showed the cracks in the American electoral system.

It’s scary to think how bad it could have been, if the election was really a traffic jam. If it was as complicated as when Trump won in 2016, for example.

Even when Trump is out of the White House, America is vulnerable to such authoritarian tenants.

Just this week the Trump administration opened up for Biden to receive public funding for his preparations as president. The delay is unnecessary and potentially dangerous.

Unnecessary, because the election was not stuck. Biden water by a good margin. It’s easy to believe, as it took several days for the media to dare to declare a winner of the election.

Biden won the even states by a greater margin than Trump in 2016. Biden has now approved 80 million votes, which is a new record.

Farleg, because the president has great power. And those who must assume important roles for national security must be up-to-date and ready from day one.

In the report that followed the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, it was noted that the George W. Bush administration was not sufficiently prevented from taking responsibility. Bush started his pre-election campaign late, as it took a long time to decide the outcome of the 2000 elections.

Then the count in Florida went to the Supreme Court.

When Trump nectar Realizing the loss, you hurt your country. And he risks dragging the whole group with him.

I think he lives well with that.

In 1967, Ronald Reagan was Governor of California. During the inauguration, he said that freedom is always only one generation away from extinction. That freedom is not an inheritance and can be taken for granted.

Reagan was later President and has been our defining Republican for decades. But his party no longer exists.

Now Republicans are more radical and less democratic. The party saw itself before the nation. Patriotism has been replaced by tribal thinking.

The republican party death does not mean that they will lose all future elections. But the party is fundamentally different from the party that existed before, with the same name.

America has shown that it can elect an authoritarian president, exactly what the fathers of the constitution feared.

And the Republicans have shown that they can accept the authoritarian in exchange for power. The next authoritarian candidate is not as incompetent and self-absorbed as Trump, writes Zeynep Tufekci in The Atlantic.

Reagan was supposed to be right, but it was his party that was only a generation away from dying.