Quote Originally Posted by Timbuk2 View Post
That Trump has lost, and indeed will have lost by every single one of the rules which lay the foundation of that Democracy come 8th December, will be acknowledged by the vast majority of the American republic including the GOP, a few cranks notwithstanding. In other words, the American right would rather lose their president than lose their democracy.

[...]

If there is one thing the American people love more than their beloved president it is their beloved democracy.
Sure—so much so that a third of them would proudly and automatically correct your assertion by explaining that the US is not a democracy.

I hear you're saying, but I think it's important to nuance this take. Much of the US is and has long been ruled by a party representing a minority of voters accustomed to yielding disproportionate political power by leveraging antimajoritarian and indeed antidemocratic features of the US political & electoral system. The democracy these people love is not the same democracy as the one their opponents—and most of the developed world—loves.