The Mid-Terms A Savior?

What If They Don't Happen?

My humble (and perhaps somewhat alarmist?) thoughts on legit elections being questionably inevitable anymore in response to this NYT conversation between the brilliant Frank Bruni, Nate Silver & Lis Smith.

All valid thoughtful insights and opinions within the context of our seemingly intact electoral politics.

But in light of the current abjectly encroaching fascism (are we paying attention?) are we not being more than a bit foolish to presume that legitimate elections— midterm or otherwise—are a reliable given, mayoral primaries and such notwithstanding?

Or are NYT and other legacy media policies cynically propped upon not only a status quo posture of readers who can't fathom such an upheaval but upon the juggernaut money machine of Pol PAC fundraising?

I believe that the question of whether the MAGOP will or won't do all within their power (they're already seeing to much undermining of the process) to prevent legitimate elections is a worthy one within the course of any such conversation.

The same question could be asked simply by pointing out that the SCOTUS-intervened Presidential election of 2000 was accepted, abdicated (by Gore) and historically normalized.

Why?

We've also accepted Citizen's United, the erosion of Voting Rights in Shelby County v. Holder and looked on while the Alito/Roberts cabal is greenlighting 80% of Trump’s authoritarian challenges.

So, again...why are we accepting out-of-hand that any further legitimate elections are inevitable? It's a perilous presumption when we should be summoning gumption to fight for that certainty.