Commentary “I am trying to imagine under what novel features despotism may appear in the world,” Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in his immortal “Democracy in America.” If he could return to our country nearly 200 years later and come to California, he wouldn’t need to stretch his imagination. Because democracy in California is being obliterated by Proposition 14, which in 2010 was pushed onto the ballot by then Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and voter approved. It was the Parthian shot of the many disasters during his misbegotten seven years in office. Called the Top-Two Primaries Amendment, it immediately almost wiped out the state’s third parties. It set up the current system, under which anyone of any party or no party, runs in a single Jungle Primary. Then the top two winners face off in the general election. In recent years, Prop. 14 has begun eroding the Republican Party, albeit not the …