The institutions of US democracy are hanging by a thread, and the Supreme Court just frayed it.
I cannot emphasize this enough: the 2024 election is effectively an up-or-down vote on Constitutional democracy. All else is secondary, because democracy and rule of law are how we address other issues.
And I cannot emphasize enough what a joke is a liberal academic's weak attempt at political bullying.
The US has arguably *never* been a democracy, and that's before the neoliberalism that swept away any remaining notion.