In olden days, laws were created and enforced by a monarch and its supporting nobility. In a democracy, the people perform those roles. In a democratic republic, representatives pass the laws but they are ultimately answerable to the people. Democrats don’t like this system. They have worked for decades to avoid public accountability for unpopular laws by two means: first, by selecting judges who are insulated from the people but fully willing to create new laws and, second, by establishing unaccountable bureaucrats (the Deep State”) to actually define and enforce the laws. Trump threatens their long game to set up a monarchy in all but name so he has to go.
Well said.