Click here for an article by my favorite columnist, Charlie Pierce at Esquire, entitled "No One Can Pretend that Wisconsin Is a Republic," subtitled, "Whatever it is, it's a far cry from a representative democracy."
Charlie says:
On Tuesday, the Democratic Party got 51 percent of the vote statewide. This got the Democrats…30 percent of the seats in the state legislature. Any reasonable definition of “a Republican Form of Government” cannot possibly include this kind of result. It is completely and utterly a product of grotesque partisan gerrymandering sanctioned by the Supreme Court in its disgraceful decision Rucho v. Common Cause three years ago.
The die was cast on this atrocity last April, when the state supreme court ruled that this year’s elections would be contested on the ludicrous maps produced by the state legislature, itself the product of past gerrymanders. The U.S. Supreme Court was a critical accessory after the fact.
And:
The roundness and completeness with which extreme conservatism has deformed the American republic is occasionally stunning.
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