Learn some new tricks, Democrats Democrats had best get their act together. The lunatics running the Capitol Hill asylum may succeed in further souring Americans on Brand Chaos. Voters demonstrated in 2018, 2020 and 2022 that America on the whole is not buying what Republicans are selling. Nevertheless, Ron DeSantis’ Florida is vying to be the first among the Fascist States of America. Where Republicans are in control elsewhere they are working hard at consolidating minority rule and turning the Land of the Free into the Home of the Knave. Maria Ressa, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner, warns that 2024 will be “the tipping point for democracy globally. As of now, 60 percent of the world is living under autocracy. We’ve rolled back to 1989.” The dis-ease is palpable. Democrats need to up their game. Greg Sargent suggests they look to Michigan to counter “the virulent reactionary turn in red states.” Democrats there have a trifecta, holding the governorship and both legislative chambers, for the first time in decades. They are using it: After flipping the state legislature and reelecting Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last year, Democrats opened their legislative session with a barrage of culturally liberal legislation, including new LGBTQ protections and repeal of an onerous antiabortion statute, which Republicans had blocked in the majority. Michigan State Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D) (remember her?) offers her take: “I hope that we do become the model,” state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, who represents a district in the Detroit area, told me. She said Michigan…