"Republicans read the other side’s playbooks and operationalize them; Democrats rarely do the same. Instead of learning after losing, far too often, left-of-center leaders tend to blame opposing factions, electoral maps, external circumstances, and gerrymandering.
All of these complaints have truth to them. Republicans cheat and the American political system favors rural states over urban ones. Unfortunately, you can’t change the system until you can change your strategies. Far-right Republicans did this. After being shut out of Congress in the decades following the New Deal, they noticed how the Constitution skewed toward rural voters and began targeting them heavily. Now, they’ve amassed the power to do the slashing and burning they’ve always wanted."
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