A recent tweet by economist April Harding provided a summary of reasons that the journalist Matt Taibbi gave for why he doesn’t “pay much attention to the sins (or threats) from "the right." One of the reasons he gave for not spending a lot of time on Republicans is that “The Republicans have very little institutional power nationally….Even if Donald Trump were a “threat to Democracy” he lacks the institutional pull to do much damage, which can’t be said of Democrats.” (