Democrats won 40 million more votes for the same number of seats. then you look at the legislatures, the state legislatures that actually pass these bills restricting women s rights. they re extremely gerrymandered. if you had state legislators that reflected the will of the people, bills like that would never become law in the first place. and so when you look at the crises in our country across all kinds of issues, from reproductive rights to gun violence to the climate, you can address each of them on their own, but they re only going to really fix this, you ll bring about the change we need if you make america a democracy finally. that s what this book is about. it is about how to study our history to give us clear instruction for how to move forward and make america a true democracy again. you know, we have a lot of proposals in there that are pretty far reaching. there are a lot of them. i think people s initial reaction is, well, we re never going to be able to pull all of thi