The “voting no longer matters” crowd is going to assert that these will be landslides for heavy MAGA conservatives, I’m presuming?
Or votes being thrown out due to “fraud” or the election being cancelled or certain voters being rounded up by cops so they can’t cast ballots or any other number of ways elections can be meddled with.
And don’t be too triumphalist just because the election goes off without any problems and Democrats win, this isn’t really The Big One. The House and Senate races in 2026 will tell us what the future of elections will be.
All common in US politics and heavily influential in shaping the outcomes of states like Ohio, Texas, and Florida. These are features baked into our election system and designed to shape the outcomes. They’ve been going on since the colonial era. This is not a bug of liberal democracy but a feature. To pretend Trump is changing the game, you need to ignore how its historically been played.
And don’t be too triumphalist just because the election goes off without any problems and Democrats win
Of course not. What could that possibly prove, except Democrats aren’t nearly as far removed from the Project 2025 goon squad as they like to advertise.
Or votes being thrown out due to “fraud” or the election being cancelled or certain voters being rounded up by cops so they can’t cast ballots or any other number of ways elections can be meddled with.
And don’t be too triumphalist just because the election goes off without any problems and Democrats win, this isn’t really The Big One. The House and Senate races in 2026 will tell us what the future of elections will be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Eye_(United_States)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/texas-woman-sentenced-five-years-trying-vote-gets-new-appeal-n1262691
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/11/politics/hervis-rogers-texas-voting-charge/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_caging
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_United_States#False_information
All common in US politics and heavily influential in shaping the outcomes of states like Ohio, Texas, and Florida. These are features baked into our election system and designed to shape the outcomes. They’ve been going on since the colonial era. This is not a bug of liberal democracy but a feature. To pretend Trump is changing the game, you need to ignore how its historically been played.
Of course not. What could that possibly prove, except Democrats aren’t nearly as far removed from the Project 2025 goon squad as they like to advertise.