I would just like to get a rough estimate of how many Americans take the "OVER MY DEAD BODY" view on plans to make this nation into the functional equivalent of a one-party nation.
You need to understand that since CPAC convened in Hungary, the playbook is to set up what is being called an "illiberal democracy".
That's just a euphemism for cardboard democracy or managed democracy, which is where the dog and pony show of voting continues on but
the results are always "managed" so that the predetermined "legitimate" or "established" party ALWAYS wins.
Examples include the old PRI in Mexico which did exactly that for SEVENTY-ONE YEARS, until Vicente Fox BROKE the grip of the PRI in 2000.
Prior to that it didn't matter who you voted for in MX, a PRI candidate was guaranteed to win.
The current fash group now wants to include the CHURCH as a partner to establish and enforce hierarchies such as castes and classes of people:
The wicked, the unfaithful or unbelievers, the "low" people. (liberals, democrats, gay community, minorities, disabled, etc)
Fascism LOVES using religious institutions as partners for that very reason.
Together with the elite wealthy and corporate class, the church serves a partner function in setting the tone for authoritarian state fascism by enforcing its predetermined moral arguments for political repression, while the corporate does the same in the economic realm.
But on the surface, it preserves the VISUAL aspects of a "democracy"....approved speech is "free speech" while speech that attacks the status quo is not, voting happens, and is even encouraged, and few people dare to refuse to vote or to vote "NO", while opposition votes are simply skipped, thrown out or otherwise invalidated, and opposition candidates are repressed and even punished.