The American election system is at present too widely distributed and too primitive to jury rig a country wide election. I hear you all shouting, so let me quickly add: Not everywhere, and of course we have to watch certain municipal areas and due to the 'setup' the U.S. Constitution did with the Electoral College, those States that swing.

I recommend the works of Anne Applebaum, She has made the recent worldwide attacks on democracy into a running subject with such readable works as:

Red Famine - Stalin's War on Ukraine
Twilight of Democracy
Gulag
and most recently:
Autocracy, Inc.

She was interviewed yesterday (Wednesday 19Feb2025) by.... Terry Gross, America's National Resource and current primary host of the public radio program Fresh Air.

One of the points I took to heart is that the techniques being used to undermine and eliminate democratic institutions are available and being used by both wings of political approach. From the right, Viktor Orban over Hungary, from the left, Hugo Chavez and Venezuela.

Pay attention to anything Masha Gessen writes or says. She is currently with the New Yorker but I believe she was originally from Ukraine. I might have written this elsewhere, but I had a long time Ukrainian friend who married and lived in the States; I used to do Winter camping and hiking, and she was one of my instructors. She was well read, had a great depth of history, and I waited too long to ask her opinion of the events of the last few years, only to find she had passed away.