An estimated $10 million is being spent in a single Kentucky Congressional primary (Trump says, ‘Get Massie!’) even as Congress abdicates its constitutional role and efforts to manipulate the midterms escalate. If the Game Is Fixed, Why Keep Score? One of the challenges of covering American politics during the polycrisis is the nagging feeling that none of this matters, as the game is fixed. The US Congress has largely abdicated its most important constitutional powers — taxation and declarations of war — preferring to focus on collecting campaign cash and avoiding responsibility. The openly partisan Supreme Court has essentially voided the Voting Rights Act and with it a number of Democratic congressional seats in the South. Both parties have aggressively gerrymandered states under their legislative control, or attempted to do so, only to be blocked by a court system ultimately under GOP control.…