the right increasingly relies upon the most anti-democratic elements of the state: not merely the Electoral College and the Supreme Court but also restrictions on the vote. As it tries to overcome this deficit of the popular by means of the unpopular—as opposed to its heyday, when it overcame the popular by means of a counter-popular—today’s conservative movement calls to mind its predecessor in early-nineteenth-century, pre-Reform Britain, dependent upon a combination of rotten boroughs and stale rhetoric.
