Permanent minority rule

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The American right is in the midst of a formidable project: installing permanent minority rule, guaranteeing control of the government even as the number of actual human beings who support their political program dwindles. Voter suppression is one, but only one, loathsome tactic in this effort, which goes far beyond just winning one election. Minority rule is the result of interlocking and mutually reinforcing strategies which must be understood together to understand the full picture of what the American right wants to achieve.

Examples are everywhere. Take North Dakota. In 2012, Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat, won a surprise victory in a Senate race by just 2,994 votes. Her two largest county wins were in the Standing Rock and Turtle Mountain Reservations, where she won more than 80% of the vote. Her overall vote margin in counties containing Native reservations was more than 4,500 votes. Observing that Heitkamp literally owed her seat to Native voters, North Dakota’s Republican legislature enacted a voter ID law that requires voters to present identification showing their name, birth date and residential address. There’s the rub: many Native voters do not have traditional residential addresses, so this law effectively disenfranchises them.

Rigging the vote: how the American right is on the way to permanent minority rule | Ian Samuel | Opinion | The Guardian

• They have to lie about their policies (tax cuts for the rich and cutting entitlements) because they are VERY unpopular.
  
• They rarely win the popular vote
  
• Vote suppression
  
• Stuffing regulator bodies and courts with conservatives
  
• Campaign law financing allowing unlimited dark money
  

Etc. etc.