Let me put that in context for you. Political scientists — good ones, from around the world — have downgraded America in recent years. It’s gone from a full democracy to what’s known as an “anocracy.” An anocracy means that multiple anti-democratic forms and systems are contesting power. Fascism, authoritarianism, extremism, theocracy. This is one facet of anocracy. Theocracy emerges in the ashes of democracy, after burning it to the ground. This is the grim reality of living in a collapsing democracy — of watching a democracy’s throat being slit before your very eyes.