1/ I've written five books on the GOP's war on democracy. Hard to distill them to a tweet, but it didn't start w Trump. Karl Rove, neocons, Jerry Falwell, the Christian Right etc gradually chipped at key institutions thru Citizens United, voter supression, disinformation, etc. https://twitter.com/ClaireBerlinski/status/1257740589304549376

2/ Then, when USSR folded, Russia became a Mafia State rather than a market economy. The floodgates opened w Trump laundering $billions, and RU money going to turn the Republican Party into an American version of the Party of Regions.