Citing violent threats against election officials and Republican-passed laws "that empower state legislatures to sabotage their own elections and overturn the will of their voters," the New York Times Editorial Board just issued this dire warning:

"Our Republic faces an existential threat from a movement that is willing to use violence to achieve its ends" and is "openly contemptuous of democracy."

The Times editors then say that to head off a growing threat of political violence, "Americans of all stripes who value their self-government must mobilize at every level -- not simply once every four years but today and tomorrow and the next day -- to win elections and help protect the basic functions of democracy."

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The New York Times editors sympathise that "After four years of chaos, cruelty and incompetence, culminating in a pandemic and the once-unthinkable trauma of Jan. 6, most Americans were desperate for some peace and quiet."

But they insist that "Things are far from normal. Jan 6 is not in the past; it is every day....The Capitol riot continues in a bloodless, legalized form that no police officer can arrest and that no prosecutor can try in court."

In our current environment, the Times warns, "It is regular citizens who threaten election officials and other public servants, who ask, 'When can we use the guns?' and who vow to murder politicians who dare to vote their conscience. It is Republican lawmakers scrambling to make it harder for people to vote and easier to subvert their will if they do. It is Donald Trump who continues to stoke the flames of conflict with his rampant lies and limitless resentments and whose twisted version of reality still dominates one of the nation’s two major political parties."

The Times editors have this plea: "Above all, we should stop underestimating the threat facing the country. Countless times over the past six years, up to and including the events of Jan. 6, Mr. Trump and his allies openly projected their intent to do something outrageous or illegal or destructive. Every time, the common response was that they weren’t serious or that they would never succeed. How many times will we have to be proved wrong before we take it seriously? The sooner we do, the sooner we might hope to salvage a democracy that is in grave danger."

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