Priority One For The Next Democratic President Must Be Restoring Democracy

Priority One For The Next Democratic President Must Be Restoring Democracy

The 2020 election was a uniquely strange national event. Because it took place amid a once-in-a-century public health emergency, many more voters would cast their votes by mail than ever had before, driving the highest turnout in 120 years. But more than that, and more even than the ongoing pandemic, maybe the most distinctive quality of the 2020 election, as of 2020 writ large, was the sense of its unfolding as an improbably dense succession of…