2024 is the biggest election year in history
economist.com
economist.com
I do feel like it gets worse and worse each cycle. And yeah, 2024 seems categorically different: a major front-runner is denying the validity of the electoral process and will almost certainly be a convicted felon by then. Regardless of who wins, tens of millions of people will believe that tens of millions of others are delusional to the point of treasonous.
Still, I feel like we could already start writing "2028 is the biggest election year in history" Mad Libs style, and fill in the specifics later. Assuming, of course, that we actually have a 2028 election, and that seems less sure than when we said "2004 is the biggest election year in history" and "2012 is the biggest election year in history".
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_next_general_elections