The Insurrection Was Put Down. The GOP Plan for Minority Rule Marches On.

[demmiblue]

How Republicans are breaking democracy.

In 2018, Democrats swept every statewide race in Wisconsin, ending nearly a decade of Republican rule. “The voters spoke,” Democrat Tony Evers said after defeating incumbent Gov. Scott Walker. “A change is coming, Wisconsin!”

Not so fast. A month later, the GOP-controlled legislature convened an unprecedented lame-duck session to strip the incoming governor of key administrative and appointment powers and shorten the early voting period to dampen future Democratic turnout. Though their opponents had won more votes, Republicans believed only they were entitled to exercise power. “If you took Madison and Milwaukee out of the state election formula,” Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said of the state’s two largest and most Democratic cities, home to 850,000 people, “we would have a clear majority.”

In fact, they still did. Even though Democrats won 54 percent of votes cast for the state Assembly, Republican control of the last redistricting process in 2011 allowed the GOP to keep almost two-thirds of seats. The legislature set to work nullifying Evers’ agenda. Republicans refused to confirm members of his Cabinet and cut his budget for priorities like health care, schools, and roads. They thwarted his efforts to fight COVID-19, persuading the courts to block his stay-at-home order and his attempt to push back the state’s presidential primary.

Republicans had been preparing for this moment for years. Between gerrymandering and laws designed to reduce the influence of Democratic constituencies—by making it harder to vote, repealing limits on political giving, and stripping unions of collective bargaining rights—they had effectively made Wisconsin “a democracy-free zone,” says Ben Wikler, chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. Those efforts helped conservative candidates win a majority on the state Supreme Court, which has upheld nearly every move by the legislature to weaken Evers’ power, creating an almost-impenetrable anti-­democracy feedback loop in a state that Joe Biden narrowly won.





https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/the-insurrection-was-put-down-the-gop-plan-for-minority-rule-marches-on/

[msongs]

1. gotta move some dems to smaller states nt

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. Make DC

And Puerto Rico states
And have mail in ballots for all future elections.

1 person 1 vote. Paper trail. Renders republican dirty tricks useless.

And fix and protect the postal service. Get rid of DeJoy and that poison pill making the post office fund 75 years in the future retirees.

Make the nightmare republicans live in terror of,real.

[WyLoochka]

3. Combine 5 northern plains & rockies states

Could start fixing this by combining the low population states of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota into 1 state represented by 2 senators instead of 5 states represented by 10 senators.

Only half tongue in cheek.

[badboy67]

4. GOP Plan to retain power:

Lie.
Cheat.
Steal.