I've been saying grab your popcorn for awhile wrt this upcoming election, 2020 was just the previews...

Elections are largely performance art, you can't meaningfully change the government through voting when the government is who runs the elections, but then an organized challenger from the shadow state still needs to mobilize supporters as a force multiplier. Hard to do that if they're disenfranchised with the election system, so the only option is to make it a spectacle.

We're watching this now as elections are being deconstructed from one side, sanctified by the other, and turnout will be at the highest levels ever because both sides need to win on optics as we can never know the actual results

Pretty confident the number of ballots, both legit and illegit, cast in 24 will be the blow-off top... I'm curious what they look like after that.