In Israel today, democracy died.
It's dying here too.
The American right, like their Israeli counterpart, is ramping up their efforts to kill it. Because American right wingers, like their Israeli counterpart, only ever crave raw power.
They have absolutely no regard for what the majority desires. No regard for accommodations of any kind. They have been given a "vision", usually by their god, as in Israel, as in Iran, of what society should be. So that if they come to power, they can - they MUST - "cleanse" society.
Cleanse it of the people they are convinced their god disapproves of, but who actually only they disapprove of.
Gays, transsexuals, liberals, communists... Jews.
Those they consider "less than."
And cleanse it they will. Eagerly, without hesitation. Because that's what they always do.
It won't start as much. A few outliers taken out. The "evil" ones. The ones they'll convince the rest of us are "harmful."
"Unpatriotic."
"Dangerous."
"Degenerate."
Those are the words they'll use because they always use the same ones.
But that group of objectionable people will grow in number and types as their definition of "dangerous" expands.
It's what they're going to do if they win in America. Because it's what they always do.