If our president and the GOP were not insane and menaces to democracy, we might now be discussing how Biden could win the popular vote by more than 7 million and have only eked out an electoral win in key swing states by under 50,000 votes.
We might be asking how the majority in the Senate could have been elected by only 17% of the electorate. Or how the small minority that picks that Senate majority also therefore gets to determine who holds the majority in our courts.
We might be asking how we hope to combat corruption in our government with elections that cost over $14 billion and included a tsunami of dark and corporate money thanks to twisted rulings like Citizens United.
If we were not distracted by the reality of a president and his party attempting a coup, we might be investigating the widespread cases of GOP voter suppression, often around racial lines, that occurred across the country...and is occurring again in Ga. now.
If the president were not trying to destroy our democracy with the help of GOP leadership, we might instead be able to focus on how profoundly broken our democracy is by almost all other metrics. Which is important...because that's how we got to Trump in the first place.
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