In general there is too much discussion of how Republicans plan to steal elections. and too little of their excellent prospects of winning them fairly by big margins. It feeds a comforting fantasy that we live in a deeply progressive country instead of a divided one.https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1386777540606537728 …
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Here's a fallacy I see pop up over and over. Yes, there are deep structural inequities in the electoral college, the way the Senate is designed, and so on. But you can't take Republican successes in that flawed system and calculate how they would "really" do in a fairer system
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The assumption is that "a fairer system" would actively punish the abject bullshit that is the Koch playbook.
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Replying to @otrahuevada
I get it, but it discounts other, new forms of abject bullshit that would compensate
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