Tornado Alley (PROG)

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You won't ever respond to the carnage you've wrought... just keep repeating that you'll win. Putin won. So did Mussolini, and Saddam, and Orban. And you're on your way.

You'll win with lesser margins than the natural midterm numbers would suggest.

You'll win with fewer votes than the Democrats will get. Our government is rigged to give the Senate to white landowning populations.

POLITICS FEB. 25, 2021
Republican Senators Haven’t Represented a Majority of Voters Since 1996
By Ed Kilgore
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/gop-senators-havent-represented-a-majority-since-1996.html

As for the house? Don't make us spit out our coffee

In a democracy, voters choose their political leaders. In a democracy that permits gerrymandering – when state legislatures draw legislative district lines that maximize the dominant party’s chances of winning seats – elected leaders choose their voters.


https://theconversation.com/how-this-cycle-of-redistricting-is-making-gerrymandered-congressional-districts-even-safer-and-undermining-majority-rule-173103



This issue brief examines the only four states where, after the 2018 elections, the party that won a majority of state legislative seats received only a minority of the total statewide vote: North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Because of gerrymandering, these four states dramatically failed a basic test of democracy—votes did not translate into political power. To make matters worse, gerrymandering has since gone hand in hand with increased restrictions on voting in each of these states. In other words, legislative majorities that received a minority of the votes have used their unearned power to make it harder for citizens to cast a ballot, further distancing themselves from accountability at the ballot box.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/partisan-gerrymandering-limits-voting-rights/

You may win, but you won't represent a majority. But that's your point anyway, isn't it?