making average americans and the people who vote in the 2022 midterms believe it is a huge problem. people are focused on day-to-day concerns, focused on covid, on their economic circumstances, inflation, all of the things that in day-to-day life preoccupy most american families. and the january 6th insurrection had the advantage of dramatizing the threat to democracy on our television screens in a way nobody could miss. as we get a year out from that defending democracy is an abstraction for most americans. it is not clear especially given the president's lack of popularity at the moment that he can rally a large audience even with the help of jimmy carter. we'll have to see if he can make that case. maybe it can rally his base but the truth is right now republicans have enough