Comment by doctorpangloss
1 year ago
Yeah. Dude. I don’t like the outcome, but he has “extra” powers because Republicans won a lot of elections and are a majority in all three branches of government and in many statehouses.
1 year ago
Yeah. Dude. I don’t like the outcome, but he has “extra” powers because Republicans won a lot of elections and are a majority in all three branches of government and in many statehouses.
It's mostly the Republicans fault, but it didn't help that Biden supported it too, in spite of how other top Democrats felt:
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/27/democrats-biden-som...
> Republicans won a lot of elections
A lot of them thanks to the results of blatant gerrymandering.
My candidate winning reflects the legitimate will of the people, and your candidate winning is solely due to gerrymandering. Of course.
Both parties[0][1] in fact do engage in gerrymandering.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%27s_4th_congressional...
[1]: https://thefulcrum.us/electoral-reforms/worst-gerrymandered-...
That's a bad-faith argument. Yes, it's true that both parties engage in gerrymandering. But Republicans do it a lot more than Democrats do.
Out of the 25 examples in your second link, it seems like 23 of them are GOP gerrymanders?
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In your own link [1] all but 2 of the examples of worst gerrymanders are Republican...?
But uh yeah "both sides"... uh huh