Opinion by Paul Waldman: Why our raging geography wars could make 2024 a nightmare
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In coming days we may see more of a liberal tit-for-tat on cross-border hostility. California Gov. Gavin Newsom recentlyin Texas telling women who now find abortions all but impossible to get in their state to contact California if they need one. The key difference is that liberals aren’t reacting to Newsom’s ploy much at all, while conservatives are vibrating with glee over what DeSantis did. Which shows that, at least for now, the appetite for geographic hostilities is not at all equal.
There’s another reason this is more important for conservatives: They are committed to the project of minority rule, fortifying the rules and systems that enable them to take and hold power even when the majority of Americans oppose them. Most of those systems and rules are based on geography. The Senate gives the same representation to 600,000 Wyomingites as it does 40 million Californians. The electoral college allowed the last two GOP presidents to first take office while losing the popular vote. Brutal GOP gerrymanders make it nearly impossible for Republicans to lose someJustifying minority rule means preserving the idea that some Americans are unworthy of equal representation by virtue of where they live.
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