Some Republicans have been defensive that the party has a strong anti-democratic bent. But the state GOP convention embraced it, writes columnist Danny Westneat.
The so-called paradox of tolerance is that a tolerant society can only survive if it's intolerant of intolerance. There seems to be an analogy here: should a democratic society allow voting against democracy? I wish this were just an interesting theoretical question, but it seems we're about to find out what happens when it does.
And even if we shouldn't allow voting against democracy, what does that look like in practice? Republicans have been voting against democracy for decades, that's why we're so Gerrymandered. Only now they're just blatantly saying it.