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There has been a spate of articles in the last week analyzing the perceived woes of the Democratic Party.

Lazy journalism. Clickbait. False equivalency. Republicans posing as neutral observers so they can sow discord.

One party in America is attempting to destroy democracy by undermining constitutional order. The other party is attempting to save democracy but has internal differences over the best path forward. Those two parties are not alike. One is an existential threat to democracy, the other is the only hope for saving it.

It takes effort, focus, and discipline to describe on a daily basis the existential threat posed by Trump and the GOP. It is exhausting to write about that threat without causing readers to tune out. But if journalists for major publications don’t want to put in the effort, they should find another profession.

There is only one political story that matters in America today, and it is not the internal growing pains of the party trying to save democracy.

Presumably afraid of investigations into his actions, President Donald J. Trump appears to have abandoned all pretense of governing for the good of the country and is focusing on rigging the 2026 election to keep Republicans in power.

This morning, as the National Association of Realtors reported that U.S. home prices have hit an all-time high, he announced that he will not sign the housing bill, which was designed to address the unaffordability of housing and which passed Congress with strong bipartisan majorities, “in PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT.”

As the Lincoln Project summed it up, the Republican Party’s message four months before the midterms appears to be, “You’re not getting affordable housing unless you give up your voting rights.”

His demand for the passage of a bill that most observers agree will suppress voting is only one of the ways that Trump is trying to rig the 2026 election.