Social systems are like organisms. Some even call societies "superorganisms." As such, when the brain isn't functioning properly a decentralised system maintains stability (or homeostasis).

Each citizen, and thousands of independent organizations, have absorbed basic democratic principles encoded in the culture (via civics classes, books, movies, activism, role modeling) and can apply that knowledge independently of whomever is in power – just as the DNA in each cell holds a blueprint of the entire organism.

Trump, in the end, will disappear into senility while the surrounding culture, flairing up in feverish resistance, will re-establish democracy. There will be a fever. There will be patches of sickness and corruption. But the DNA for democracy is too deeply established to go away. Indeed, bits of that DNA are already grafting onto China, Russia and the Middle East. It kicked in with the election of Macron in France.

Whenever Trump whines about the "deep state" I find myself assured. The deep state is essentially the DNA of democracy itself.

it is similar to what Wittes wrote in recent days...that the institutions of democracy are too deeply embedded in US to allow trump's authoritarian dreams to take hold.

Remains to be seen, I feel...

very interesting,
thanks,
kp

unfortunately republicans don't care about democracy any more than trump. so it is this way.

Everyone else can go to hell as far as I am concerned.