To take the heat off jwb, I'd like to make a comment addressed to any Trumpists, or any back-sliders, idealists or overthinkers who are considering NOT voting for the Dems:
Please don't lose sight of the fact that if the Dems don't get your support in 2022, it may well be the last even notionally fair election America ever enjoys. Sounds very alarmist, I'm afraid, but that is certainly how I´m reading the political tea-leaves in the US.
A chunk of the GOP have already rejected the peaceful transfer of power, they have subscribed to the idea that the Department of Justice is a tool for the President's use. They sent a (forged, bogus) slate of electoral results to Pence to overturn the true, vote-based results (from Wisconcin). They have pushed for vigilantes to enforce abortion bans. They support an ex-President who lied about and downplayed the pandemic ("it'll go away, like magic"), putting his political career above the lives of who knows how many thousands of Americans who died needlessly because of his willful negligence. Pretty safe to say he would do the same again if returned to power.
None of those things are desireable imo, and I consider a vote for the Dems to be a peaceful way to prevent them becoming an entrenched part of US life.
I wonder if perhaps some guys on MB suffer from a kind of "can't happen here-ism", or don't realize how ghastly, how helpless, life under an autocratic regime can be. Just from today's CNN page, here's a look at the news you might wake up to under an autocracy:-
Women are banned from solo long-distance road trips (Afghanistan)
Pop star and 7 others arrested in sweep of pro-democracy news outlet (Hong Kong)
Court shuts down Human Rights Centre (Russia)
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