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doctorpangloss • 02/19/2025 • 2 replies • view on HN

Yeah. Dude. I don’t like the outcome, but he has “extra” powers because Republicans won a lot of elections and are a majority in all three branches of government and in many statehouses.


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calibas • 02/20/2025

It's mostly the Republicans fault, but it didn't help that Biden supported it too, in spite of how other top Democrats felt:

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/27/democrats-biden-som...

georgemcbay • 02/20/2025

> Republicans won a lot of elections

A lot of them thanks to the results of blatant gerrymandering.

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