You will never know who is taking their lead from you, who is watching you and deciding that they can be a little braver because you have been brave. - Pete Buttigieg

It was actually Thomas Jefferson himself who said 'we might as well ask a man to wear the coat that fitted him when he was a boy' as expect future generations to live under what he called 'the regime of their barbarous ancestors.' So even the founders that these kind of dead-hand originalists claim fidelity to understood better than their ideological descendants — today's judicial so-called conservatives — the importance of keeping with the times. And we deserve judges and justices who understand that.

We cannot have a free Government without elections, and if the rebellion could force us to forego or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

The truth is our election system is flawed. But it will only be improved if we trust it enough to use it to elect people committed to fixing it.