Circling Back to the Pressing Choice of Government: ‘By the People’ or ‘For the People’?

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) speaks at an event on the steps of the U.S. Capitol for the "For The People Act of 2021" in Washington on March 3, 2021. Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

Up until the 2020 election, the single-most-important democratic institution that Americans could depend on was the ballot box.