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    Die Republikaner stehen kurz davor, einen großen Fehler zu machen: Experte

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    1. UnusualAir1 on

      Republicans ruin the economy every time they get elected. They start wars. They trash constitutional freedoms. They do their best to cheat at voting. In short, republicans do just about everything America finds disgusting every time they are elected. Been that way for many decades now. And they don’t seem to pay any political price for it.

    6. ShootFishBarrel on

      This article is ~350 words and is vapid trash that says nothing. A Politico columnist thinks aggressive GOP gerrymandering could backfire. That’s it. That’s the entire article.

      Two sentences about what Bill Maher said on his show — completely abandoned after the intro, never reconnected to anything.

      Three block quotes from Martin that together form maybe one and a half actual arguments. Zero analysis from Henderson himself. (Perhaps I should be more thankful for that?)

      What’s missing is any actual mechanism explaining *how* the gerrymandering backfires. Martin gestures at „more competitive races“ and „energize Democrats“ but the article fails to explain the logic and the premise: that aggressive gerrymandering spreads your voters thinner across more districts, making each one more vulnerable in a wave year.

      Voters that have been spread thin are more vulnerable. They cannot hit back hard. Republicans are not making a strategic mistake; stealing votes from their opponents is valid *as a strategy*. It’s simply a mistake from the perspective that it’s illegal, unethical, and morally bankrupt.

    7. SenseiT on

      I think it might be worse for the republicans than the article states. Yes, some of the remaining GOP who refused to go along with Trump’s gerrymandering plans got primaried by Trump and replaced on the ballots by Trump sycophants. Yes, the closer they align the,selves with Trump, the more moderates and independents will be disenfranchised. But additionally, because the GOP has been super gerrymandering for so long, there is almost no more room for them to create more red districts. The more they try to pack districts, they are actually making even ruby districts less safe for the republican candidates. Almost every special election has been won by democrats which is why Trump and the GOP is panicking. Hell even Mara Lago’s district was won by a democrat. I’m not suggesting democrats can relax, far from it. Im just saying that even after Virginia’s supreme court setback, there is still hope. Trump will try to steal the midterms so everyone needs to vote.

    9. madcoins on

      A bridge too far in a gridlocked 2 corporation system never appears, apparently. Neither the RNC or dnc ever seem to pay a price. They instead just get more “donations” and are back in political power in a couple years

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