Republican Majorities Wouldn't Exist Without Gerrymandering

The Republican Party is able to cling to power thanks to gerrymandering districts at the state level. Their policies, when they actually exist, are absolutely hated by the public, but they've created a country where they are guaranteed a certain number of seats thanks to their district drawings. Without this, they wouldn't be able to survive as a national party. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains how this happened.

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The Republican Party in the United States today is almost, almost, I would say incredibly unpopular, possibly more unpopular than they've ever been. They have no policies. The only things they know how to do are launch culture wars and cut taxes. That's it. There's the only two things the Republican party has done for several decades now. So the question remains, how the hell are these idiots in power? Like even their own voters are not happy with their policies. So why do Republicans keep getting elected to office? Well, one of our viewers thinks they have an answer and spoil alert, they're right. This is from YouTube, user b Bosak who says, I think more people need to understand gerrymandering and how difficult it is to get a Democrat voted into the house and into state legisla legislatures. Look at the percentage of Wisconsin voters that have voted democratic in statewide races in the last three general election.

It's definitely over 50%, yet Republicans make up 83% of Wisconsin's US house reps. And it's not just Wisconsin, right? We, we see this in places like Ohio and Pennsylvania, basically a lot of swing states. Uh, we, we see it in other areas as well, Alabama, even in deep red states, uh, Texas, I mean, Dan Crenshaw's district has like a giant part in the middle and then a, a like a hook type thing that goes over and scoops up a bunch of these other folks that's gerrymandering. And if it were not for gerrymandering, people like Dan Crenshaw wouldn't be in the house. People like Jim Jordan wouldn't be in the house.

We would not have nearly as many Republicans controlling state legislatures or in the, you know, house of Representatives if it were not for these gerrymanderings. Uh, I, I, I honestly believe the Republican party would not be a major political party in this country if they didn't have the gerrymandering, because again, their policies are not popular. They're not even popular with their own voters. They've taken the culture war issue and they've run it, you know, for 50 years now, and it's, it's served them well. But even that is starting to taper off and the voters are starting to look at 'em like, Hey, um, Kay, I, I know you, you don't like women to have reproductive freedom. I, I know you hate drag queens, but I can't pay my bills. I'm hungry. I need medicine I can't afford, and, and you're telling me I gotta ban a book. Like what? That's not, that's not how this works guys. But you get enough people who still believe Republicans can pull it off and you cram 'em all into a district and then you scoop up enough Democrats from here and there, and you make the district all squiggly and swirly so that they can't put a Democrat into that district. That's how it works, and that's how Republicans stay in power.

And that's why we talk about Republicans today. If gerrymandering had been essentially made illegal, you know, like a hundred percent illegal back in the early days of this country, I don't think the Republican party would even exist today. It would be a subject in history books, kind of like the wig party, kinda like the Democratic Republicans, a party that nobody really remembers, but they existed at one point until they effectively just destroyed themselves. That's what the Republican Party would be today without gerrymandering.