If we don't fire and prosecute the folks who have sullied the Constitution, if we are no longer outraged at its most obvious violations, if we elect to office those...
What if democracy and liberty can only co-exist when the government is faithful to the Constitution? What if the history of American government is its infidelity to the Constitution?
As Ayn Rand famously observed, any compromise between good and evil, natural rights and slavery, food and poison, results in death β death of the body, death of liberty, death...
In a democracy, faithless to constitutional guarantees, the majority will take whatever it wants from the minority β including its liberty and property.