Gerrymandering and voter suppression aren’t clever political strategies; they’re the termites eating away at America’s wooden beams. The house still looks pretty from the outside, but inside the joists are hollow. From Elbridge Gerry’s salamander-shaped district in 1812 to the modern algorithm-driven map wars, democracy has been rigged, rerigged, and then shrink-wrapped for partisan advantage. Republicans have turned suppression into an art form, while Democrats have tried to play nice. But niceties don’t win knife fights. The real question is whether fighting fire with fire could finally push the Supreme Court to outlaw the matchbox altogether.
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