Opinion: Republicans everywhere are waging a desperate battle against democracy
The kickoff event for the Vote For Our Lives movement, which aims to register voters, last week in Littleton, Colo.
Let’s take a little tour around the country, to see some of the other blows that Republicans are trying to strike against democracy: That’s above and beyond all the structural elements of our system that enable minority rule, such as the disproportionate power given to small states in the Senate and the electoral college that has allowed Republicans to become president with fewer votes than their opponents in two of the past five elections.
The 2018 elections offer Republicans a frightening preview of the future. Newly released census data shows that turnout spiked among young people, rising from 20 percent in the last midterm election in 2014 to 36 percent in 2018 among those under 30. It also rose proportionately more among those with higher educations and those living in metropolitan areas, both of which favor Democrats.
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