Why did the GOP slide so far towards authoritarianism between 2011 and 2020?

Donald Trump brought more ethnically antagonist voters into the Republican Party, and those voters are particularly anti-democratic

My opinion is that the media, which originally did a poor job conveying the threat of election subversion and violence after the 2020 election, has actually answered some of the bigger questions about the GOP’s anti-democracy turn and tolerance of party-sanctioned insurrectionists quite well. Most major papers have written some variation of the indictme…