Here is a stat that to me says it all in terms of how broken and undemocratic the U.S system has become: the Republicans gained 3 seats (last I looked) in the Senate. Total votes for Senator by American voters? 44 million for Democrats and 33 million for Republicans.
That is mind-blowing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ampht...es-still-lose/
Now, there are reasons for that: for example, a high number of Senators won re-election in safe Democratic seats, and the top two candidates in California were both democrats. But that, along with the massive gap in the so-called "generic ballot" and you begin to wonder about how stacked the deck is here...