Republicans may have won a slim majority in the House, but voters sent election deniers packing. To move forward, optimism may need to shine through.
on the phone the day after last fall’s midterms. I was expecting some exhaustion. It had been a long night of returns and a punishing election cycle, and I assumed that everyone was nursing the same kind of civic hangover I was. But the Michigan secretary of state was ebullient, still riding an adrenaline high from the night before. “Though we’re in the middle of this multiyear effort, this is a significant victory that we never got to celebrate in 2020,” Benson tells me.
Americans “have widely divergent views on a broad array of topics, but not on democracy. As you go around the country, it’s clear that election denial took it on the chin.” In 2022, the process played out relatively peacefully—no mobs tried to break into vote-count centers in Detroit; no bullhorns outside Benson’s home; no kidnapping plots against Governor. The threats of intimidation at drop boxes, of pro-Trump partisans infiltrating election boards, of postelection chaos? There were scattered incidents, sure, but not enough to seriously shake the system.
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