Opinion by Paul Waldman: America is under attack — by Texas
advocates for an in-state electoral college for statewide elections. That would leverage their gerrymandering of legislative districts into a system enabling them to win and hold executive power even when most voters choose their opponents.
That’s more about the future than the present, since no Democrat has won a statewide election there in years. But as every Texas Republican knows and fears, it will happen before long. The state is steadily if slowly trending toward blue due to a number of factors — including its growing Latino population. To illustrate, Mitt Romney won there in 2012 by 16 points. Four years later, Trump won by nine points. And in 2020,All this shows how Texas is in some ways a political microcosm of the United States. It features Republicans whose ability to attract majority support keeps diminishing — and in response, rather than trying to attract moderates, they run further to the right, seeking out the most divisive culture war fights they can create. As part of that effort, the state’s Republicans have made it their project not only to change the way life is lived in their own state, but to do everything in their power — with the assistance of some well-placed judges — to make the rest of the country’s laws follow suit. And they’re making a whole lot of progress, whether the rest of us like it or not.
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