The Republican Party has begun to realize that they cannot win a straight up election in many areas of the country. They have benefitted from a locked-in gerrymander from 2010 to retain control of the House, despite losing the popular vote for House candidates.
Now, faced with a rising tide of Democratic voters, they are simply eroding democracy. The Supreme Court (now 11% more rape-ier) ruled that North Dakota can basically disenfranchise thousands of Native Americans. This pretty much sinks any long shot chances for Heidi Heitkamp to hold her seat. That's intentional.
The Republican gubernatorial candidate in Georgia is also the Secretary of State, and he's decided to deny voter registrations on technicalities. If your name is Cortez-Lopez but one of your state IDs says Cortez Lopez, you just lost your right to vote.
If that wasn't enough, we now have a story of a Democratic campaign operative being arrested for being a Democratic campaign operative.
The decline of the Party of Lincoln into the Party of Trump, includes a stop at the Party of McConnell. Increasingly, we are waking up to the fact that the majority of Americans do not get to determine who governs them. This is contrary to the founding ideals of the country. The Republican Party does NOT have the consent of a majority of the governed, yet they control all three branches. In an effort to preserve their control, they are actively waging war on the ballot.
These are shitty, evil, un-American people who deserve a drubbing in November and in 2020 that will leave a mark for a generation. But it probably won't happen, because Trump gives WWC voters the feels.
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