You are mixing oranges and apples. A caliphate is a dictatorship controlled by religious dogma and its "true believers." Republican actions, on their own, are leading to an oligarchy dominated by a few with wealth.

But, the current collusion between evangelical Christian leaders who are morally bankrupt and the Trump cabal is that Trump and company are giving the corrupt evangelicals an entrance into serious comingling of church and state which could -- if not stopped -- destroy our democracy and lead to religious tyranny. The culprits are the Trump cabal, those evangelicals who have sold their "souls" for power, and the Republicans who stand aside and let them do it.

I agree, though the real depressing thing is that dems and moderates can't get our act together, yet the demographic that is not extreme right-wing outnumbers the extreme right... that's the real sad thing. We (everyone who is not extreme right) should be able to fix things if we could get on the same team.

pretty spot on, i'd replace the monacre 'republican' with 'rich, fearmongering, manipulative, status-quo-loving, entitled, narcissistic, nepotist, elitist, lying asshats' though.