A federal judge has ruled in a closely watched redistricting case out of Georgia, preserving a Republican gerrymander that dismantled the district represented by Rep. Lucy McBath (D). McBath said shortly after the decision that she would run in a new district. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported that the maps would likely remain in place through at least Election Day 2024.
Another case of Republicans stacking the deck thanks to Boris Manchin and Natasha Sinema refusing to kill the filibuster and pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
Why isn’t TPM talking about the trials and tribulations of Ronna McDaniel. A failure as GOP chair by all normal measures she remains secure in her position. In fact why are Democrats at all worried about the GOP in 2024. Fundraising is down. Membership is down. The Republicans are simply falling apart, yet the Democrats live in fear of the Republican party winning across the board next November.
We’re Democrats. We’re decent, mostly. We’re bright enough to know we should worry so we worry.
I would say she doesn’t get top billing because she’s more of a grain of sand in the sandstorm that is Donald Trump. Fundraising and membership are down because Trump has chased half the Party out of the Party and absconded with the other half. It’s hard (and largely irrelevant) to judge Ronna Romney McDaniel’s performance because it’s been completely overshadowed by Trump’s total eclipse of the Party’s operations.
After the Columbine shooting one question was absolutely unasked by all commentators: Where did they get the money?
The GOP never runs out of money to pay people to make bad faith arguments. Nobody wonders for a minute how deep it goes.
Money ~ immutable innocence.
“. . . Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that such aggressive partisan gerrymanders are allowed.”
I was always taught in school that gerrymandering was a bad thing.
And Ronna is the Tool of all tools. Bless her craven little heart.
In the end, and in the perhaps not-too-distant-future, climate change will render all our other concerns moot.
Yes, money is the root of all evil…
But her emails and she made speeches on Wall Street. Don’t get me started on those who didn’t even bother to vote in 2010 or 2014. I don’t give a flying f**k what their reasons were and they damn well better not be bitching about the courts now.
She makes a nice icon for Republican failure however.
It is hard to forgive aggressive stupidity.
I know one family that is true for right now. They are dairy farmers and friends of mine. We had record breaking high wind last Monday and they lost several structures on their farm, including their main cow barn - the roof was totally gone. 55 cows had to find new homes immediately.
Maine SofS turns thumbs down on TFG
Because we want Republicans to keep such a failure of a RNC chair on the job.
Also, we’re not concerned about Republicans winning across the board, we’re concerned about Trump sneaking in again through Republican dirty tricks. I fully expect the GOP to have another disappointing down ballot election in November. However, Republicans could have a red trickle and Trump could still win the Presidency due to third party spoiler candidates and the electoral college.
I don’t know. I was in college in the early teens and my friend group was just learning to be adults in 2016. I lost significant relationships in my life because I was trying to force a conversation with people who were missing at least a decade of civics education.
They were strategically if not structurally ignorant and I saw them aggressively stupid. The consequences are very real regardless, but what I am more angry about today is the lack of any counter-balance to that known deficiency which is what is now empowering the next generation to start to make the same miscalculations of 2010 and 2016.
Young adults don’t understand how the federal judiciary works. They don’t understand how their state governments are organized. Some don’t even realize the President isn’t popularly elected. They can all tell you that the mitochondria is the power house of the cell and can factor out a quadratic function into standard format and then chant the magical incantation " X equals negative B plus or minus the square root of B squared minus four AC all over two A" to the “pop goes the weasel motif”, but most of them can’t explain how the electoral college functions, the power of judicial review, and definitely can’t understand why the deck is stacked against them in almost every level of government by minoritarian control.
If we don’t start teaching young people how our government works and why, it’s not tenable to hold them accountable for when they don’t recognize why voting for fucking Jill Stein or Cornell West is a vote against everything they believe. We’re choosing that outcome by choosing to not reinforce civics.
You and I might have been taught gerrymandering is a bad thing, but John Roberts long ago concluded gerrymandering by Republicans is a good thing. He has the Supreme Court. We don’t.
There is something to be said about not having judges substitute their judgement for one party or the other. What we really need is for the Democratic party to push like hell in all 50 states to win local elections across the board. A hard project but one the Republicans undertook about 3 decades ago and we are still enduring the fruits of their efforts.
Agree, but word of warning to all. It’s not a sandstorm. Much more unsavory flecks swirl in the air following Trump’s ascendency to the top of the party. It’s the proverbial mass-meeting-the-fan situation.