I think Americans are realizing that democracy is a participation sport, and the the government is ours if we want it to be. I feel like we got complacent and hoped some other third party would do the work for us. Seems like we have to learn that lesson every generation.
The above post does nail the one major mistake the Democrats participated in for some decades now. Democrats focused too much on national political races and left the traditional political paths wide open to abuse by far-right, populist Republicans. Namely: local school boards, neighborhood... 1/2
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2/2 ...representatives and county supes, sheriffs, mayoral races, State legislators, Attorneys General, Governors and elected Judges at the county and state level. It can be fixed and the first step is to get the nearly one third of the electorate, who do not vote, to the polls.