Gotta admit it. My faith in democracy is badly shaken (though not broken)

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11. But do they actually control the courts?

Trump went 0-for-infinity in post-election lawsuits, including some that he himself appointed. While I'd have to be delusional to think that the courts lean any direction but conservative, I doubt that they will become completely partisan. Not to mention that Joe has been appointing judges at a record pace. There's even a review of the Supreme Court going on, so that may change in a couple of different ways.

The anti-voter laws largely are surmountable through hard work on our part. If we couple that with driving down Republican turnout, we should win. This is politics. What looks like wisdom in mid-2021 might well turn out to be wildly wrong by late-2022. Always work like we're behind and we just might win.