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Alejandra Caraballo: My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system
Alejandra Caraballo
@esqueer.net
My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.
And now they're using that structural bias in the system to turn it into a permanent advantage that will make it nearly impossible to vote them out of power. It's turning us into an illiberal democracy with a permanent ruling class dominated by white men.
People point to Hungary but it took 15 years to get Orban out and that's after he destroyed the country and made it the poorest in the EU with a massive brain drain. Unfortunately, that's the only way out. Republicans have to fuck up so badly that the voters finally say enough, and even then...
Most states in the deep south have had permanent republican rule since the 90s and there's no hope to change it for generations given the polarization along racial lines. This is despite rampant corruption, dysfunction, and disasters in all these states. It'll take near collapse to dislodge them.
So realistically, we're just going to have to deal with Republicans having substantial structural advantages for decades while we watch everything around us degrade and crumble. Living standards, cost of living, education, healthcare, the environment, etc. will all just get immeasurably worse.
It's depressing to know that the best years of your life were likely in the 2010s and we'll all be looking back in a decade or two wondering how this country could be so stupid to throw it all away. We can't say they weren't warned because they were. Unfortunately, people only learn from disaster.
@esqueer.net
My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.
And now they're using that structural bias in the system to turn it into a permanent advantage that will make it nearly impossible to vote them out of power. It's turning us into an illiberal democracy with a permanent ruling class dominated by white men.
People point to Hungary but it took 15 years to get Orban out and that's after he destroyed the country and made it the poorest in the EU with a massive brain drain. Unfortunately, that's the only way out. Republicans have to fuck up so badly that the voters finally say enough, and even then...
Most states in the deep south have had permanent republican rule since the 90s and there's no hope to change it for generations given the polarization along racial lines. This is despite rampant corruption, dysfunction, and disasters in all these states. It'll take near collapse to dislodge them.
So realistically, we're just going to have to deal with Republicans having substantial structural advantages for decades while we watch everything around us degrade and crumble. Living standards, cost of living, education, healthcare, the environment, etc. will all just get immeasurably worse.
It's depressing to know that the best years of your life were likely in the 2010s and we'll all be looking back in a decade or two wondering how this country could be so stupid to throw it all away. We can't say they weren't warned because they were. Unfortunately, people only learn from disaster.
My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.
— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) 2026-05-08T15:20:39.356Z
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