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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, April 7, 2023

The Biggest Threat To American Democracy Is the GOP

 Whether in Tennessee or Montana or any other place, the GOP is no longer committed to the idea that the candidate with the most support should represent the people.

UPDATE: Paul Campos has an interesting post on roughly this issue. If we could find a way make it so that minority factions of the GOP can no longer win elections - mostly by vigorous enforcement of voting rights and no gerrymandering - would they actually moderate? The current example of Michigan isn't encouraging, but it usually takes multiple ass whoopings to change behavior.

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