Jonathan Last: “I keep banging on about how anti-democratic redistricting has become, where institutional leverage is used to magnify small majorities (or even small minorities) into distortions so that political power is not meaningfully related to electoral support.”
“Both parties do this. But not in equal measure. And this week, Republicans at the state-level started showing just how far they were willing to go to exert their institutional leverage…”
“Moving towards winner-take-nearly-all defeats the purpose of the House of Representatives. It creates a disconnect between electoral and political power. And it encourages extremism by making party primaries more important than general elections.”
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