It won’t be those legitimately aggrieved over the loss of George Floyd who immediately contest the election results later this year. Instead, it’ll be the same folks out there right now, our young white urban class that were for a decade told they were on the right side of history. For them, the constraints of our federal political union feel binding. The cities are where the populations are. They have the numbers, they have the experts, and they have the mainstream media. They see their will being stymied as somehow anti-democratic and, in the sense that they misunderstand our republican system, it is.
