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3 takeaways as NY Mets’ misery reaches new low in sweep to Pirates https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/141204/ #Baseball #blackburn #Content #ContentSharingNYProSports #david #DavidPeterson #Francisco #FranciscoLindor #Frankie #FrankieMontas #jankowski #Lindor #Mark #MarkVientos #Mets #MLB #Montas #Neutral #New #NewYork #NewYorkMets #news #NewYork #NewYorkMets #NY #Overall #OverallNeutral #Paul #PaulBlackburn #Peterson #Pro #Sharing #Sports #SportsNews #Travis #TravisJankowski #Vientos #York
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3 takeaways as NY Mets’ misery reaches new low in sweep to Pirates https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/141204/ #Baseball #blackburn #Content #ContentSharingNYProSports #david #DavidPeterson #Francisco #FranciscoLindor #Frankie #FrankieMontas #jankowski #Lindor #Mark #MarkVientos #Mets #MLB #Montas #Neutral #New #NewYork #NewYorkMets #news #NewYork #NewYorkMets #NY #Overall #OverallNeutral #Paul #PaulBlackburn #Peterson #Pro #Sharing #Sports #SportsNews #Travis #TravisJankowski #Vientos #York
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Two men recognized and exploited the anti-democratic loopholes within America’s rickety democracy
-- in order to deliver Republicans victories that they could never win at the ballot box.Now their willfully minoritarian creations threaten the very essence of a representative democracy:
if Donald #Trump, rightwing courts, #gerrymandered state legislatures and an extreme Republican #caucus in the US House of Representatives create constitutional #chaos over the certification of this presidential election, 👉two men cleared the path.
The single-minded determination of #Leonard #Leo built a conservative supermajority on the US #supreme #court and ♦️stacked lower and state courts with Republican #ideologues that have pushed the nation to the right via the least accountable branch of government.
#Chris #Jankowski masterminded the partisan #gerrymanders that ♦️tilted state legislatures and congressional delegations across the south and the purple midwest toward extreme Republicans,
♦️ended Barack Obama’s second term before it started, and ♦️rendered elections in Wisconsinand North Carolina all but meaningless over the last decade and a half.Leo and Jankowski understood, separately, that the courts and state legislatures were undervalued and often undefended targets for a deliberate strategy aimed at capturing important levers of power that sometimes float under the radar.
They could be Moneyball-ed, to borrow the term Michael Lewis used in his book about how the Oakland A’s made an end-run around large-market teams by understanding value that their opponents overlooked.
What Leo and Jankowski built separately would soon reinforce the other’s creation (with, of course, crucial assists from chief justice #John #Roberts), tightening the knots around meaningful elections, pushing policy to the extreme right and 💥making it nearly impossible for voters to do anything about it