‘Democracy is on the ballot, this election.’
This was the lie that parted the red sea and helped turn an anticipated Republican tsunami into a trickle in the US mid-term elections.
Almost all Americans agree these are unprecedented times and that their nation stands divided. But they’re equally divided on who is to blame for this.
Democrats fear a January 6-style ‘insurgency’ of gigantic proportions, while Republicans fear Black Lives Matter-esque riots in every city and nobody to police them.
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