Important distinctions

There’s a third track of “rules everyone agrees are rules, but people think are unfair” like gerrymanders and electoral college. But people don’t functionally treat the government as fake when there’s an EC/pop split, we’ve had 2 recently. Overturned election is truly uncharted.

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) June 3, 2021

It’s uncharted but I wouldn’t bet on it staying that way. They will do it, perhaps first in a couple of House races or maybe in a close Senate race. in 2022 It will be tested in the courts and go all the way up to the Supreme Court.

Will McConnell’s Supremes decide that the Constitution really does give state legislatures the unilateral power to overturn elections? Will they uphold the wingnuts new insistence that courts and election officials have no power to change rules that have been passed by those legislatures? I think we are going to see. And if they vote the wrong way, we can kiss legitimate elections goodbye.