You’d think a hegemony with a 100-years tradition of upkeeping democracy against major non-democratic players, would have some mechanism that would prevent itself from throwing down it’s key ideology.
Is it really that the president is all that decides about the future of democracy itself? Is 53 out of 100 senate seats really enough to make country fall into authoritarian regime? Is the army really not constitutionally obliged to step in and save the day?
I’d never think that, of all places, American democracy would be the most volatile.
The problem is also that the Republican party is a fascist party, so the other check, impeachment, is thoroughly useless.
If you have only one party on the ballot and it’s a fascist party, you don’t really have a democratic choice do you? You can either vote for fascism or not vote for it.
If you have a fascist party on the ballet In an ONLY TWO partys political system, you don’t really have a democratic choice do you? You can either vote for fascism or not vote for it.
Fifth columnists love FPTP. It minimises their workload.
Ironically, these are the times the electoral college was supposed to avoid. Also denounced political parties as corrupting. Still likely to have been coopted by now, but the design was to combat lack of education, lack of information, and/or propaganda.