Watching Joe Manchin perform for an audience of who knows, I had a sinking feeling regarding the continuation of American democracy. Sometime after the elections in 2022, a Republican state legislature somewhere will nullify a Democratic win and install a Republican. The talking heads and many Democrats will decry this transparently authoritarian coup and it will be ratified by the newly installed Republican House and its craven Speaker, Kevin McCarthy. This will be the dress rehearsal for 2024 and the end of democracy. And yet, most of us will continue to get up and go to work each morning. Unfortunately it will no longer be under the aegis of the longest running democracy on the planet.
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