Published on Jan 4. If what happened yesterday (Jan 7 at US Capitol) could draw any reference to Hongkong, and our crippled democracy, it is the historic voter turnout of 2020 and the deliberate wreckage of the whole system afterwards. Tech-savvy dictatorships provide little room for incompetence.
// The only reason American democracy survived 2020 is because of historic voter turnout, a handful of principled Republican election officials, and an independent judiciary. None of those factors are guaranteed to survive, and without one of them, the whole system would collapse. //