Democracy, poisoned: America’s elections are being attacked at every level

"People need to stop fooling themselves. This is unlike anything that's happened in American history," said Sean Wilentz, a Princeton professor who was among a group of historians that met with Biden earlier this year to discuss the threat to democracy. "It is continuing and it is grave. And I think the country needs to wake up." 

The movement threatens American elections from the top down and the bottom up at the same time. At the top, there is a push to install statewide officials who would have no reservations about making baseless claims of fraud and overturning an election result. From the bottom, it seeks to harass, threaten and ultimately remove non-partisan local election officials and make it harder for them to administer elections. If there is an overarching strategy to the movement – and it's not clear there is one – it seems to be to cause as much chaos, as much confusion, and as much uncertainty, as possible...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/04/us-democracy-attack-midterms-election-constitutional-crisis-2024