An anti-democratic faction and minoritarian electoral institutions are destroying our republic. What can be done? 📊 May 30, 2021
Shot of rewriting the Constitution, electoral reform. Short of that, not much.
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An anti-democratic faction and minoritarian electoral institutions are destroying our republic. What can be done?
In hindsight, it is easy to see how norms and institutions that empower minorities to dominate the majority would lead to a party endorsing anti-democratic policies and actions. Actually, the framers warned this might happen, too. That only makes our current moment all the more frustrating.
On Friday, the US Senate voted 54-35 in favor of proceeding to a limited debate over a House-passed bill to establish a commission to investigate the causes and events of the January 6th invasion of the US Capitol. That is just a wordy way of saying that the vote to establish the commission failed, even…
