If you want to know how Frum is using the term, his most recent article more closely examines it:

"When we worry about democratic decline in the United States, it’s important to be clear what we are worrying about: corrosion, not crisis."

"We have gotten used to the president’s party in Congress sabotaging and discrediting the investigation into foreign manipulation of the U.S. presidential election. We have gotten used to the dwindling of the State Department, the paralysis of the National Security Council, and presidential attacks on the independence of prosecutors, the FBI, and the Department of Justice. We have gotten used to the party of the president pushing through vastly significant laws without hearings and even without accurate estimates of their costs and consequences. We are becoming used to state parties rewriting local election laws explicitly to impede voting by people who might vote against them."

And Frum is a conservative. But the "conservative" movement has changed
[Post edited by BonsackHoo at 01/18/2018 8:01PM]