He called the ruling a “huge win” over a “horrible gerrymander.” But Trump himself has ordered many GOP states to gerrymander maximally. So here Trump openly declared that Republicans reserve the right to rig elections while Democrats do not. His actual position is that Republicans should play by their own corrupt rules, a declaration of intent to functionally steal the midterms.

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    (All of which is a result of FPTP voting and single representative districts. But fixing that is a longer term project)

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      Yes, agreed. This system wasn’t a bad implementation for a quarter of a millenium ago, but it could use a few tweaks to get rid of the flaws we’ve noticed since then…