@samueljohnson @BrentToderian I certainly agree that improving electoral systems would improve things.

The problem is that there are no rational actors, all people work with the information they have, and the wealthy oligarchs have gained control over a huge fraction of the information people have access to.

You can pick any electoral system, Trumps till beats Kamal in 2024.

And yeah, as @enobacon says, ranked choice doesn't actually do much. In fact, plenty of US elections already use ranked choice.

@BrentToderian Trump is bad, but what is scary is the absolute capture of the establishment/oligarchs in the US have over the media. The way large companies, tech and otherwise, are bending the knee. But this is small compared with how effective they are consolidating power over media. Bari Weiss controlling CBS is a good example of this. But also the takeover of tiktok, twitter, the gutting of PBS, the control over small local outlets by Sinclair etc.

The thing about how "popular" Trump is says less about the...lets call it 'insanity' of Americans, and more about the level at which the establishment is capitulating and the amount of control that establishment has over the media diet of the average American.

I don't know how you fix this. But even aside from that, it's at the point where the Trump supporters are basically brainwashed to the level of a cult member, and I don't know what you do in a situation where there are 30 million people in a cult.