the best hope for america is the return of MAGA political apathy. maybe repeated resounding losses can fix it.

The right has worked long and hard to rig the system is such a way as they don't have to have the support of the majority.

This is very true. From rigged requirements for voting, to gerrymandering state districts, to the number of polling places in certain areas, etc., etc., etc.,

They have mastered gerrymandering. They've managed to dominate many state legislatures, even in some very purple states. They've stacked the courts. And for presidential contests they have the sweet advantage of the electoral college.

True. And there is so much energy and strategy devoted to this, and the base denies that it is there. It has been a constant over the years that some people are better at governing than others and they should be allowed to govern. There is no real belief in democracy. The distrust of the government back east was present when the midwest and west were settled and has never left.

And a huge advantage is an ill-informed base and a lying right wing media machine to keep that base constantly enraged and motivated such that they will happily vote against their own real interests.

Resentment is feature to be manipulated. Get them to resent, which can become anger and hate. So they will go into college campuses where some social experiments are going on and amplify it as if this is being foisted on the general public, and you can present bills filed to appeal to some niche group as if those northerners, those back easter elites are going to foist this on us. Rally round the flag and protect family values. Dirty nasty raping terrorist hordes are coming across the border to defile our wonderful white women, mix with our pure white genes, bring that Muslim barbarity, and then out baby us and outvote us. And somehow all that leads to a celebration that taxes are reduced on corporations - go figure.