Perry Bacon Jr.
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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They would probably go down to seven is the idea.
And what you would really end up with is a lot of people who have, a lot of people who are black and brown, a lot of members of Congress who are black and brown,
would lose their seats in this redistricting.
That's where the racism plays in is like, they want to take away any amount of sort of liberal power and liberal power tends to be also black and Latino members.
So that's where the race part of it comes in is their agenda is designed to empower white Christian traditional voices in our society.
And that's what gerrymandering is doing in these red states.
The bill they just passed to cut Medicaid and cut taxes for the rich was one of a lot of pollstership.
That was one of the most unpopular, you know, the big, beautiful bill or, you know, the name, the crazy name they gave it.
One of the most unpopular bills in modern history, polling in the 20s.
Like that's not what a political party that wants to win elections should be doing.
Democracy usually means that parties pass things people actually want and
and then win elections.
Instead, they pass a bill people know that they know people don't like.
They read the same polls you and I do.
And then after they pass an unpopular bill that's going to make them lose the midterms, they say, oh, we're going to redraw the districts to help us win.
That's why this is so pernicious.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden tried to, whatever you think about them, tried to pass bills.
They would often drop bills that were unpopular.
They were conscious of public opinion.
I don't know of it, but I think here's the man right here.
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