Someone I read regularly is New York Times essayist Thomas Edsall, who held the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Chair of Journalism at Columbia and now--at age 79--writes a weekly column at the paper. His guest essay, How Far are Republicans Willing to Go? They’re Already Gone , published on June 9, 2021 ( NYT Edsall ) was insightful as always but more alarming than usual. Here is a selection of quotes from that piece (emphasis added). We have watched with great concern as Republican-led state legislatures across the country have in recent months proposed or implemented…laws politicizing the administration and certification of elections that could enable some state legislatures or partisan election officials to do what they failed to do in 2020: reverse the outcome of a free and fair election. Further, these laws could entrench extended minority rule , violating the basic and longstanding democratic principle that parties that get the most votes win...