The Iowa Caucuses Are Going to Be a F*cking Nightmare

There will be new rules and new confusion for America’s favorite insane democratic process

Lyz Lenz
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Published in
7 min readJan 28, 2020

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Illustration: Agnes Ricart

DDemocracy begins in a messy place, and that place is Iowa. At their core, the Iowa caucuses are a fleshy meeting, voting with your body in a school auditorium where it smells like skin and floor wax. There’s hesitant…

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Lyz Lenz
GEN
Writer for

Author of God Land. Columnist for the Cedar Rapids Gazette. The book Belabored is forthcoming from Bold Type Books in August of 2020.