We definitely have free and fair elections in the u.s. No question. How meaningful those elections are given partisan polarization, gerrymandering, and the structure and norms of the senate is another question. This is as good as it gets. This is unified government. But the minority party is still able to use the filibuster rules to block most legislation. There will probably be at least a slight leftward reaction at the midterms which will have the effect of removing trump’s ability to pass eve

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even these modest budget reconciliation bills and some of the vengeful personal crap he’s been able to pull off. But the dysfunctional paralysis will continue. In fact it gets worse with split government. And the capitalist market economy will continue to do what it does when government doesn’t take its hard edges off and work well for the rich but not for a large struggling working class. Actually I think we may soon be reaching a crisis point with public debt, ineffective governance, and p

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I would very much like it to be, but this administration doesn’t care about freedom, fairness, or truth. Only money and power.

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public frustration with all of it

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Other than the gerrymandering yeah I don’t think there will be any real problems (Btw it’s not like the gerrymandering is unofficial, Texas is proudly calling it gerrymandering)

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Hot take: Not enough people participate in midterms to even bother rigging

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