this may get wonky, so buckle up but it's important stuff. one of them is rank-choice voting. something we are seeing in new york city, maine, alaska, increasingly in states in the united states. other ideas, like multi-member districts and proportional representation haven't opinion done in the united states for decades but once were put in place in certain states and cities. this study suggests it may be time to look at those local election reforms again as a way of depolarizing the populous. another study jumped out at me also from carnegie. really one of the best scholars of the defense of democracy area. and this also looked at lessons from foreign lands where democracy had been degraded but she was, in particular, looking at the institutions, jim, that could restore faith in democracy after it had been degraded by out-of-control executives. and she found that it wasn't political parties. it wasn't politicians who were able to heal a nation. it was institutional accountability from an independent judiciary. nonpartisan prosecutors, journalists who bring