Or rather, conservatives believe, deep down, that the *possibility* of electoral losses is legitimate, & the Left does not. It is not a coincidence that the original democratic transfer of power was away from a party of the Right (the Federalists). https://twitter.com/Vermeullarmine/status/1289971635311669248 …
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The whole idea of a constitutional democratic republic is that sometimes you lose elections, & then you get to convince the voters to give you back the same powers they just gave to the other guy.
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Im pretty sure districts like this are not part of the idea of a constitutional democratic republic. Easy to see why your side is quicker to see legitimacypic.twitter.com/mV4J5Uxv6F
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We live in the brief historical interval when Democrats pretend to dislike gerrymandering, especially gerrymandering commanded by their own interpretations of the VRA.
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You and I both know if we are being intellectually honest that a more dense, urban party is going to be more hurt by gerrymandering on average than a more rural party. Interval or consistent geographical trend?
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I mean, except the Democrats for all of U.S. history before 2010. https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2017/02/20/donald-trump-republican-house-democrats/ … &https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/how-much-does-gerrymandering-really-matter/ …
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