There are both glimmers of hope and reaso for serious alarm today when it comes to assessing the health of our democracy. Every authoritarian escalation by Donald Trump and his cabinet is being met with an equal and opposite reaction from the American people. Consider the news breaking last night that the Justice Department failed to secure an indictment against the six Democratic lawmakers who released a video simply reminding the men and women of the military that every one of them swore an oath to the Co ...