Two men have re-engineered the US electoral system in favor of Republicans | David Daley

If the right strews constitutional chaos over the certification of this presidential election, two people will have cleared the path

Two men recognized and exploited the anti-democratic loopholes within America's rickety democracy in order to deliver Republicans victories that they could never win at the ballot box.

Now their willfully minoritarian creations threaten the very essence of a representative democracy: if Donald Trump, rightwing courts, gerrymandered state legislatures and an extreme Republican caucus in the US House of Representatives create constitutional chaos over the certification of this presidential election, two men cleared the path.

David Daley is the author of the new book Antidemocratic: Inside the Right's 50 Year Plot to Control American Elections as well as Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count