for The Hill
 

Elections are about the future, not the past, as the old cliché has it. But as the 2024 presidential campaign gets underway, U.S. voters can’t seem to escape the noxious aftermath of the 2020 election.   

Many would like to move on, but Donald Trump won’t let them. He wants to rerun the 2020 contest next year, only this time with him winning. Complicating his improbable bid is the belated legal reckoning he and his lackeys now face for scheming to steal the last election.    

The 2024 elections, thus, are shaping up as yet another Trump-induced stress test of America’s democratic resilience. The first culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on Congress, when President-elect Joe Biden narrowly escaped the first coup attempt in U.S. history.