A political ideology with disbelief at its core

Disinformation has unmade the Republican Party, and with it the promise of democracy in America

Over the last month, I have been somewhat reassured about the well-being of our democracy by the various Republican civil servants who have resisted the president’s calls to throw out the results of the election and award him a second term. One of the most newsworthy co-partisan opponents of Presidents Trump’s efforts is Judge Stephanos Bibas of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, who threw out the campaign’s court cause in Philadelphia on Friday and wrote “Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy, [….] Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here.”

Bibas’s dedication to our democracy was reinforced by Republican election officials in Michigan, Arizona and Georgia who also denied Trump’s efforts. They serve as a reminder that loyalty to a political party only goes so far, at least with today’s degree of partisanship.

Yet for every official who fought off th…