You’re not wrong. At the same time, if Trump wins, the idea that the Sacklers might get away with effectively homicide on a multi billion dollar heroin dealing scale, won’t be even in the top 100 problems. “How can we punish the guilty” will have to take a back seat to “how can I prevent the guilty from directly threatening my safety or maybe putting me in prison” for a little while.
It looks like me like they just mean that their source for region by region how many people had died, and what the support was for fascism in the elections, was pulling the data from this one specific newspaper at the time.