Our democracy isn’t fragile. Our democracy is completely broken. If Democrats fail to hold both houses in 2022 we won’t have to worry about 2024. The American experiment will have failed. On January 6, 2021, there was an armed insurrection against our government incited by the person voted out of the Oval Office. His actions were encouraged and participated in by members of Congress, many of whom were trying to overturn the results of a free and fair election.