Has a lengthy quote from Rick Pildes:

“When people perceive politics as existential, they believe the country will never be the same, in a fundamental way, if the other side prevails. The other side is not merely the opposition, but an existential threat, and not just in the political realm, but even at the personal level.

“For parts of the right, the Charlie Kirk assassination is going to further fuel that belief. Politics becomes totalizing. All the different institutional domains of a liberal society are swept into the maws of the political: the entertainment sphere, the universities and even elementary education, the private sector (such as law firms), civil society, and much else. There is no limit to the political.”

Also one from Larry Diamond (among others):

“Donald Trump’s goal is to create a Hungarian-style pseudo-democracy, in which he and his movement can rule indefinitely through unfree and unfair elections and utter dominance of the media and civil society landscapes, while still claiming that they are the democratic embodiment of the ‘will of the people.’

“Everything Trump has been doing of late follows that authoritarian playbook of trying to eviscerate checks and balances, eliminate independent oversight actors, and use state power to punish and terrify critics, so they will self-censor. He is even going after the same philanthropy — the Open Society Foundations — that Orban went after.”