Republicans became addicted to gaining power through gerrymandering. They got what they wanted, and right now, they’re hitting bottom.
whose legislatures they control, but their efforts have been far surpassed by Republicans’, and without the destructive effects for the country’s institutions.And so, the debacle we’ve been witnessing in Congress. From gerrymandered Republican seats come noncompetitive districts that elect hardliners with little to no incentive to compromise on choosing a speaker—or anything else.
But this saga will not be the last of gerrymandering’s legacy. Kevin McCarthy hasto his party’s extremists so much of the Republican speaker’s power that, whether or not he wins, the same people who have extorted him will spend the next two years treating the speaker’s podium as Kevin’s concession stand.The next House leader will almost certainly lack the ability to herd the feral cats in the Freedom Caucus.
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