Turnout for 2016 was 55.5% of the voting age population. It’s been 112 years since we had even 65%. The highest we have had for a long time was 2008 with 57.1%. The last time we have cracked 60% was 1968.
Voting turnout for 2020 would have been a good indicator for how many people are really worried about possible unrest and uncertain times coming. The covid/huge vote by mail/early voting probably messed that up.
The terrible thing is that if we would have higher turnout through the years I doubt things would be better now. I suspect we would actually be farther down the slope at this point.
Freegards
I’m just talking about the good guys who sit at home as well - and that’s a substantial number. If they would show up, we could dwarf the other side every election.