For six months my brief dips into Reddit's r/politics have been greeted with the sentiment that "we'll fix this when we regain control in the midterms".

Each time I read this I've quietly shaken my head, because the prospect of free and open midterm elections in the formerly-United States of America has grown ever more faint.

Mother Jones explains how this is going to go down.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/voting-rights-act-supreme-court-2/

'There are different ways to rig an election. Trump’s attempted coup in 2020 was one of them. This is another. Neither is compatible with multiracial democracy as we have known for the last 60 years.'