America as a one-party state: today's hard right seeks total dominion. It's packing the courts and rigging the rules. The target is not the Democrats but democracy itself.(Cover Story)

AMERICA HAS HAD PERIODS OF SINGLE-PARTY DOMinance before. It happened under FDK's New Deal, in the Republican 1920s and in the early 19th-century "Era of Good Feeling." But if President Bush is re-elected, we will be close to a tipping point of fundamental change in the political system itself. The United States could become a nation in which the dominant party rules for a prolonged period, marginalizes a token opposition and is extremely difficult to dislodge because democracy itself is rigged. This would be unprecedented in U.S. history.

In past single-party eras, ...

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