Midterms loomed, but primaries revealed the battlefield. Election deniers swept nominations in state after state. Governors’ races, secretaries of state, even down-ballot judges.
These weren’t fringe candidates anymore. They were the slate. The party embraced them, not reluctantly, but proudly. Democracy wasn’t just under attack from mobs. It was under attack from ballots with names printed neatly across them.
The fever is not breaking. It’s spreading. And ballots are sharper than batons.