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Matt Malin
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It occurs to me that gerrymandering may not be merely another ugly feature of our broken politics, but one of the ingredients in the next phase of the rupture itself. Perhaps that sounds too dramatic, and perhaps it is, but the escalation logic is not difficult to see once the map becomes the battlefield. In Pape
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From The Fugue Loop Goes Global, this is the passage I keep returning to today:
“Most states are watching. Europe is watching. China is watching. Russia is watching. Iran is watching. Ukraine is watching. Everyone is making decisions not only about what the United States says, but about whether the United States can still make its words hold value across the globe.”