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A year into the Biden administration, America remains up for grabs. Trump supporters do not accept the legitimacy of the Biden presidency.¹ Trump himself is already campaigning for reelection on a platform of revenge for a stolen victory. Congress remains bitterly divided; gerrymandering and voting restrictions race forward to create lopsided advantages before the 2022 elections.² And the Supreme Court–dominated by three Trump appointees who together got only four votes of Democratic senators–continues its reactionary turn.³ Almost everyone believes our national political system is broken. Surely, it strains credulity to think that we are a democracy, if we mean by that a system in which the majority of the citizens choose their representatives who, in turn, aim to translate public opinion into public policy.⁴