"A Sickness in the Republican Party"

"Only at the end of their Times op-ed do Levitsky and Ziblatt come out and say it: 'Intensifying polarization, driven by an extremist Republican Party, is making constitutional hardball a new norm for party politics.' Which is to say, this crisis is not simply the result of polarization, but what William A. Galston and Thomas Mann in 2010 called 'asymmetrical polarization': The GOP has moved much further to the right than the Democrats have to the left. In doing so, the party has become more cohesive and extreme—more willing and able, that is, to shatter political norms to achieve their ends.

Jeet Heer at The New Republic explains how the Republican Party "Is the Real Threat to American Democracy."

And Tim Dickinson at Rolling Stone presents "an all-star roster of post-accountability Republicans."