The Resistance emerged after Donald Trump’s selection. The Tea Party movement emerged after Barack Obama’s election. But the biggest reason is quite simple-the minority motivates. There are several reasons for that, such as a president’s inability to deliver campaign promises through our broken Congress. We all know what history says about midterm elections-the party that controls the White House usually gets walloped, particularly during a new president’s first term. It feels like November 2016, when Trump “defeated” Hillary Clinton despite receiving three million fewer votes. I’m even sensing it among the apolitical. And I can sense that permeating through-not just from the politically engaged, but even among the kinds of people who only perk up around presidential election time. In fact, it feels like we’re in the minority. And therein lies something else I feel viscerally: the disempowerment of our supposed majority. So yes, it’s hard to argue for voting as the solution, when voting has proved so impotent to this point. They wouldn’t even need a Supreme Court at that point. We also need the cushion, because the 2024 map is tough, and unless President Joe Biden can turn his approval ratings around, a Republican trifecta would be the end of whatever rights we have left. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. We have to gain seats to break the Senate logjam and disempower Send. What’s worse: Holding our ground isn’t enough. But none of that will happen if historical trends maintain and Republicans take control of the House or Senate. There are ways to mitigate the inequities in our system: statehood for Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico if they want it, Supreme Court expansion and term limits, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, etc. IyZj5TTvHR- Barry McMillion □ May 4, 2021 The 116 counties are located across 33 states. Census Bureau- here's a map showing the 116 counties that each have a greater 2020 population than Wyoming (108 counties had greater pop than WY after 2010 census). The 2020 county population estimates were released today by the U.S. Three of those Supreme Court votes today came from their picks. Bush and Donald Trump sat their asses in the Oval Office contrary to the will of the American voter. It hasn’t mattered that we won the presidential popular vote in five of the last six seven of the last eight elections, when George W. We are feeling dread, despair, hopelessness. Because we know, viscerally, where this is all headed. Really, we don’t need to engage in those stupid pseudo-intellectual arguments. Look at how outraged many liberals were at my book The American Taliban, which predicted exactly what we’re seeing today. We know what Republicans seek they haven’t been shy about it, even if too many liberals refused to accept that reality. But we don’t need to, because we feel it viscerally, in our bones. But Justice Clarence Thomas was very explicit in his terrifying concurrence about what their end goal was, and heck, McCarthy is certainly not pretending otherwise. Some lawmakers are trying to argue that the decision merely shifts the decision to the states, and that the majority decision explicitly claimed no other privacy rights were targeted.
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