I think what we learned ... or rather re-learned to day ... is that @davidfrum's aphorism that "if conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy" is inexorably true, but of Republicans generally.

We are witnessing the wholesale decoupling of one of the two major American political parties from democracy. Republicans have decided, as right wing Democrats did from the 1920s until Republicans stole their southern base in the 1960s, that democracy just stands in their way.

And just as southern Democrats once went to war against Black voters, fighting by any means necessary to lock Black voters out (using everything from bubble tricks to terrorism), Republicans are seeking to systematically block and even delete Black and brown voters altogether.

Ole Dixiecon Republicans like @LindseyGrahamSC are pressuring other Republicans to throw out masses of votes to simply replace the winner in a race with the loser, if the loser is a Republican. And those Wayne State Republicans tried to pull a similar Jim Crow move in Detroit.

What's remarkable is that this war on democracy is being waged on behalf of Republicans' tormentor, out of abject fear that Trump's control over millions of rank and file Republicans could loosen these quislings grip on political offices they don't even use for the public good.