No. of Recommendations: 5
But the study documents something specific: a coherent worldview in which democratic processes are only legitimate when they produce outcomes the participant approves. That is not a misunderstanding of democracy. It is a rejection of it.
There was a narrative going around GOP circles some years ago: "the United States is a republic, not a democracy". as if a republican form of government, and democratic processes, are mutually exclusive. Some of us have seen the maps circulated by the right, showing the vast majority of the land area of the US, as voting GOP, and only a few, small, areas, voting democratic, thus proposing that the country should always have GOP rule. Of course, that map ignores the fact that the small blue areas, like LA or NYC, have far more population that the vast GOP expanse of Wyoming, for instance.
So, yes, there is a faction that is against democratic processes.
Steve
