The modern Republican party is hurtling towards fascism | Robert Reich

We are witnessing the logical culmination of win-at-any-cost politics - and Donald Trump has encouraged it

America no longer has two parties devoted to a democratic system of self-government.

We have a Democratic party, which - notwithstanding a few glaring counter-examples, such as what the Democratic National Committee did to Bernie Sanders in 2016 - is still largely committed to democracy.

Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com