In case there was any doubt, the last month has made clear that the Right is ready to do away with what little democracy we have in the United States. The congressional hearings on the January 6 Capitol riots have provided new evidence about the extent of former president Donald Trump’s determination to overturn the 2020 election results. At the same time, the right-wing Supreme Court has issued a series of decisions — on abortion, Miranda rights, climate change, and more — that amount to a judicial power grab, one that’s stripping ordinary people of their basic rights and hobbling the political system’s ability to confront some of the major issues of our time.

In its next term, the court could further undermine democracy by allowing state legislatures to unilaterally decide the outcome of presidential elections. Meanwhile, a significant number of Republican legislators and candidates continue to maintain that the Democrats stole the 2020 election — and two-thirds of GOP voters seem to believe them.

One would hope Democrats would respond to all this by denouncing the right-wing extremists, holding those who participated in the attempted coup responsible, and directly challenging the Supreme Court’s antidemocratic power.