David Pakman

But they want to leave that open.

We will decide where we need to have federal troops.

When you have that conversation, just suggesting that it shifts what people see as normal during an election.

And at the same time, we've got people close to Trump who are saying we're going to make major changes to how elections are run.

They have this attempt to give

a county clerk's the ability to say, I don't trust these results, so we're going to throw them out something that is supposed to be just a perfunctory role.

They want to empower them to go.

I don't think we're going to count these so far.

Fortunately, on that, they haven't been very successful, but they're still trying.

They want to limit mail in voting.

They want to tighten access to voting and to polling places.

They want new rules you can quickly implement, which will make it more confusing for voters as to what is or isn't allowed.

And of course, they've got the classics, challenge voter rolls, try to deregister people strategically, reinforce the idea that the process can't be trusted.

Maybe people will just stay home.

And so when you put all of these different tactics together,

You make people believe in a broken system in order to make it easier to justify changing the system.

If people believe the system's working well, they would go, why would we make any changes?

If people believe the system is not working well, they would be more likely to look the other way and go, yeah, systems broken.

You should go ahead and make changes.

Now, the other important kind of difference that we are seeing in twenty twenty six as compared to prior elections from the far right and the mega people.