Ezra Klein has a great article today about how to democracy.
I’ve always been impressed and amazed by the political savvy and organizing ability of the right.* Ezra Klein’s piece in the New York Times, “Steve Bannon is on to something” lays out examples of some folks who are committed to democracy who are taking their cues from the same playbook to elect local officials who are committed to democracy — and are doing what’s needed to make and fund the nitty gritty rules that allow elections to happen.
(Reminds me a bit of the work Science for Safe Schools did in Iowa in tracking Q and anti-mask candidates for school board elections last fall).
*Their savvy and success make the current slow insurrection so puzzling to me — the right has finally succeeded, after eighty years, in changing enough of the rules that they have most of the power anyway. Biden’s election could well be the last national anomaly for a long time, and the new state voter suppression and gerrymandering laws will give them almost all the states as well. So why are they doing what they’re doing? I guess when your ideology is against democracy, controlling the mechanisms of democracy just isn’t enough.