This is correct of course, but I think it’s also misleading as to the big picture in American politics. https://twitter.com/douthatnyt/status/1315384759388905473

Trump looks set to lose the 2020 election by a large margin and if that happens (which again it might not) then he will leave office and there will be no “Trump coup.”

But will the Republican Party try to make it safe, easy, and convenient for everyone to vote? Of course not.

Does the Republican Party believe that every citizen’s vote should count equally in the distribution of national power? Of course not.

Trump’s picks for Attorney General and Director of National Intelligence and Secretary of State are all using their powers of office in unprecedented ways to advance partisan ends. The president openly thumbs his nose at the Hatch Act.

The emergent political order is not a “coup” but a world in which the check on authoritarianism is that Democrats can sometimes win by huge landslides because the Republicans pursue hideously unpopular policies is not great!

What we should have is a country of free and equal citizens with the rule of law and political equality among voters.

We don’t have it, Republicans don’t want us to have it, and while I’m glad Trump is way behind I just don’t find it that reassuring.