This (and voter suppression) is what happens when you're unable to connect with a majority and you have a leader (Trump) who takes a "win at all cost" approach to everything.
In Wisconsin, Republicans pressed ahead with a lame-duck session — the first held in eight years — to give GOP Gov. Scott Walker the opportunity to limit the power of his successor, Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers. The Republican measures would also change the date of the 2020 presidential primary to benefit a conservative state Supreme Court justice and limit early voting.
In Michigan, meanwhile, Republicans introduced bills late last week to diminish the powers of the incoming Democratic governor, secretary of state and attorney general as well. The Democratic victories for those three positions last month set the stage for Michigan Democrats to control those three seats for the first time in nearly three decades.
This stuff erodes peoples' (already very limited) faith in public institutions, that is why it matters.
Russian interference and money through the NRA
voter suppression all over the place
gerrymandering
and this . . .
