The GOP’s once sure-fire odds to retain their Senate majority in the midterms are looking bleaker every day, but according to a new report from Politico, some in the party are plotting a “coup” that could save them from a complete wipeout: flipping John Fetterman, the increasingly ostracized Democratic senator. Fetterman was first elected to the Senate from Pennsylvania in 2022, besting the Trump-backed Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz and helping Democrats defy the odds and grow their majority in the chamber. Initially styling himself as a working-class progressive champion, he has since made a major shift away from his own party, voicing support for various initiatives and nominees from President Donald Trump and breaking the Democratic minority on several key votes.
It is insane to say an institution where representatives of 10% of the population can thwart the interests of the other 90% (Source) is democratic. Russia has elections, that doesn’t make it a functioning democracy.
Russia’s elections are known to be a facade like in North Korea. And I do agree America isn’t authentic in their elections either.
But the senate is one of the few spaces we get elections often and specifically for our locality. I don’t think the senate as a concept is a problem, I think there are flaws in the execution