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And see: Wes Moore mopped the floor with Dan Cox. MTG did not get elected in Maryland. She, sadly, didn’t need the EC where she was.

Majorie Taylor Greene also didn’t get a boost from the electoral college either, still she got elected to the House. While MD may be a bit more reasonable than MTG’s district, no one ever thought someone like her would ever be in congress.

I think we should spend more time talking about biases and prejudices and how those things are actually different from systemic racism. All people have biases and prejudices because what is “intellectually lazy” (not that I am disagreeing) is a brain function that keeps us from over-analyzing everything, so some of us are prejudiced against the cars people drive, the clothes they wear, the churches they attend, etc. If we can normalize that and ask people to check their biases and examine whether or not they are causing them to form damaging conclusions without that meaning they are necessarily evil for being susceptible to unsophisticated thinking, maybe we can get them to overcome harmful beliefs with some self awareness.

The Maryland electorate is not analogous to the US overall (rich, educated) and it won’t suffer the b.s. effects of the electoral college boosting the minority. I’m not arguing that anyone should be complacent, but the facts on the ground are simply different.