Jackie Calmes: Thanks to gerrymandering, Republicans can continue to behave abominably and win the midterms
by Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times
Nov 22, 2021
3 minutes
House Republicans began the year with nearly two-thirds of them voting against ratifying Joe Biden's election. In doing so, they allied with the insurrectionists, incited by Donald Trump, who'd stormed the Capitol just hours before to prevent the constitutionally mandated vote.
Fast-forward to last week: Ten months after that tragedy of incitement and political violence, House Republicans refused to censure Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, the white nationalist sympathizer who'd posted an animated video depicting him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and threatening President Biden. Yet they weighed whether
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