We know, for example, that on Nov. 3, more than 74 million Americans voted to reelect a man whom a slew of serious historians have already identified as the worst president in American history, a man whose personal behavior was never remotely dignified, who often behaved like a compulsive liar with an uncontrollable need for approval and applause. His indifference to Americans who did not share his own attributes -- European ancestry, white skin, economic comfort -- was obvious. That indifference often became outright hostility that reeked of ethnic prejudice. He faced one huge crisis as president and utterly botched it. And yet, those 74 million-plus citizens evidently wanted four more years of making America great again. How could that happen?
Robert G. Kaiser from his review in the Washington Post of the highly anticipated book “The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups” by William J. Bernstein.
The fact that Trump still got 74,223,369 votes should serve as a constant reminder that we need to do better.
If we can peel away just 5% of Trump’s total, 1 in 20 of the people who voted for him, most of the GOP voter suppression would be neutralized.
We fired up our base in 2020. It was blue hot. Yet, if just three states (Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia) had given 0.7% fewer of their votes to Biden then the electoral vote would have been tied at 269.
We have to do more than just fire up our own base and preach to the choir.
