Comment by hedora

The only real way to fix this in the US is via election reform.

The GOP is trying to create an apartheid state where minority rural areas dictate the laws for the majorities that live in urban areas while they extract resources from those areas.

They know this is incredibly unpopular, so they don't even pretend they're trying to get the majority of the vote in most places. Instead, they've been trying to set vote thresholds to > 60% for ballot measures and stripping authority from all elected offices that aren't subject to gerrymandering.