Who said that and when?
It very much is under threat. You have armed shitheads performing active voter intimidation, election deniers (always losing in courts) and there were attempts to infiltrate biased partisans into the voter counting. Already on top of transparent and obviously biased voter ID laws and gerrymandering cutting out huge swaths of rural centers around urban ones. I do think that a sitting president calling a state governor and asking him to "find votes" is a threat...
I hear it often with older white people saying that "we" are becoming the minority and inferring that maybe we don't really need a vote to decide things...
Okay, and the emergence of the urban educated white vote turning Blue, states that were perma-Red becoming swing ones like GA and AZ.
A lot of the divide is sheer ignorance. The substantive issues like Roe vs. Wade the messaging was pretty clear. But it's hard to trust the GOP to fix anything like the economy or inflation. I never heard a single substantive plan other than, wait for it! LOWER TAXES!!! Durka durr!
Actually proved it's quite alive and well within the republic. It was a stupid claim that democracy was ever in threat... dumbasses.
I hear it often with older white people saying that "we" are becoming the minority and inferring that maybe we don't really need a vote to decide things...
Despite a lot of misplaced optimism... both major parties failed to get the right messaging to move the needle significantly in either direction. What is crystal clear is, the nation remains fairly evenly divided with a lot of complexity within the division that neither party seems to have a handle on.
The contrast between major population centers and the rest of the nation is most interesting. I'm watching Florida though, as one area the made a major shift and it broke it's swing-state status which had been present for decades. The contrast in Florida between large population areas and rural pretty much evaporated. Plus the shift with Hispanics is noteworthy and something I see the Republicans continuing to make gains in...
The contrast between major population centers and the rest of the nation is most interesting. I'm watching Florida though, as one area the made a major shift and it broke it's swing-state status which had been present for decades. The contrast in Florida between large population areas and rural pretty much evaporated. Plus the shift with Hispanics is noteworthy and something I see the Republicans continuing to make gains in...
A lot of the divide is sheer ignorance. The substantive issues like Roe vs. Wade the messaging was pretty clear. But it's hard to trust the GOP to fix anything like the economy or inflation. I never heard a single substantive plan other than, wait for it! LOWER TAXES!!! Durka durr!
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