We weren’t supposed to be able to do this. Time-honored wisdom was that the GOP and its voters were stodgy stuck in the traditionalist mud types, incapable of rapid transformation of any sort, particularly when it came to the sacred ballot box and their ingrained habits and superstitions.
Election Day or bust was the GOP mantra. Everyone knew it, and Democrats exploited it for decades. Never more so than in the havey-cavey days of COVID election rule rejiggering and loosey-goosey mail-in statues.
Republicans faithfully followed the exhortations of their leaders to present themselves in person on the first Tuesday in November and would get their clocks cleaned in the wee hours of the night for all the good standing in line did them.
Democrats snickered all the way to their new offices, secure in the knowledge that Republicans and Election Day voting were the…
