What Next - How to End One-Party Rule
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
A perennial presidential battleground state, Wisconsin became a warning—or blueprint—for how one party can subvert democracy and keep power without winning more votes.
Does the Badger State hold any lessons about how to walk back a gerrymandered, minority rule?
Guest: Ari Berman, Mother Jones’ national voting rights correspondent and author of “Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It.”
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| 0:57.0 | Something I've learned this week in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is that it did not take me very long to want to play |
| 1:10.2 | hooky from the Republican National Convention. |
| 1:14.7 | If you've watched on TV you might get a sense of why. Every speaker is repeating |
| 1:20.5 | similar talking points about inflation, making America great once again. |
| 1:26.5 | I carried my boredom, for lack of a better word, by driving an hour and a half west |
| 1:31.7 | to an election's event with no jumbotrons, no balloon drop, |
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