The only thing that's new here are the last two points. We've got a president from an unpopular minority party that increasingly relies on various tactics rathe

The only thing that's new here are the last two points. We've got a president from an unpopular minority party that increasingly relies on various tactics rather than actually appealing to voters. The decentralized nature of our elections means that the elections have always been a patchwork of potentially problematic local jurisdictions, each one so small that it's unlikely for issues to shift the outcome of a national election. Perhaps our greatest strength was our TRUST in the people involved to do the right thing, and that trust has been abused. And a not-insignificant number of people have decided to go along with it for their own advantage, whatever that may be.