Popularity is optional as Republicans find ways to impose minority rule

Kurt Bardella, a Democratic strategist, noted that the government was founded with checks and balances to ensure that minority viewpoints could be heard. "But it was not the intent of the framers and founders to have those minority views imposed on the majority and certainly not to have those in the minority attack the rule of law to try to unravel majority rule, which is what's happening right now. It doesn't get more anti-democratic than expelling members from a legislative body for expressing themselves in a constitutionally protected way. 

"Republicans are inflicting injury and harm on democracy. It's a continuation of what they started to do with the big lie [that the 2020 election was stolen] … which paved the way for an insurrectionist attempt. We're seeing other extreme iterations of that play out in individual states. When you have a minority of people exercising power over the majority, that's authoritarianism."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/15/republicans-minority-rule-tennessee-race-gun-control