This is relevant because recent court rulings are both dangerous to democratic institutions but also to millions of voters across the US. This sub cares about both of those.
Jamelle is probably my favorite columnist right now, and I recommend following him on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, or wherever else. He always has good, measured takes while still taking the current situation as seriously as it need to be. Plus he’s a YIMBY!
SenranHaruka on
> On top of that, they seem to treat partisan identity as an immutable quality of the state, separate from the voters.
> It is not, to look back to Ogles’s comments, that Tennessee voters are represented in the House and many of them happen to be Republicans, but that Tennessee is Republican. The delegation must match the supposed general will of the state, even if large parts of the voting public back the other side.
Always has been how conservatives view politics. In fact they view **America** this way, as a predominantly and gravitationally conservative and christian country that has a few islands of unfortunately drawn state borders that give islands of progressive ideology unfair procedural power over Real Americans. I would argue that it is literally a foundational ideological tenet of the 1968 Conservative Revolution that **America is not for the Secular Liberal but the God Fearing Nationalist**. The Bismarckian Authoritarianism of the republican party “good [americans] fear nothing except God and [liberals]” was always anti electoral in its end state as elections were only legitimate so long as they enthroned the party already ordained by god.
There is little separating Newton Gingrich ideologically from Otto von Bismarck beyond that Bismarck beleived welfare provided stability to the nation’s folk people it is obligated to first serve.
SelesnyaGOAT on
Man give me 5 minutes alone in a room with a southern republican legislator I swear to god
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Here’s a[ gift link](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/opinion/callais-voting-rights-roberts-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iFA.Fvrb.HnsS6uQF5L2l&smid=re-nytopinion), courtesy of u/nytopinion
This is relevant because recent court rulings are both dangerous to democratic institutions but also to millions of voters across the US. This sub cares about both of those.
Jamelle is probably my favorite columnist right now, and I recommend following him on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, or wherever else. He always has good, measured takes while still taking the current situation as seriously as it need to be. Plus he’s a YIMBY!
> On top of that, they seem to treat partisan identity as an immutable quality of the state, separate from the voters.
> It is not, to look back to Ogles’s comments, that Tennessee voters are represented in the House and many of them happen to be Republicans, but that Tennessee is Republican. The delegation must match the supposed general will of the state, even if large parts of the voting public back the other side.
Always has been how conservatives view politics. In fact they view **America** this way, as a predominantly and gravitationally conservative and christian country that has a few islands of unfortunately drawn state borders that give islands of progressive ideology unfair procedural power over Real Americans. I would argue that it is literally a foundational ideological tenet of the 1968 Conservative Revolution that **America is not for the Secular Liberal but the God Fearing Nationalist**. The Bismarckian Authoritarianism of the republican party “good [americans] fear nothing except God and [liberals]” was always anti electoral in its end state as elections were only legitimate so long as they enthroned the party already ordained by god.
There is little separating Newton Gingrich ideologically from Otto von Bismarck beyond that Bismarck beleived welfare provided stability to the nation’s folk people it is obligated to first serve.
Man give me 5 minutes alone in a room with a southern republican legislator I swear to god