• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    Or the Republicans push through “election security” laws that gerrymander the whole country to the point that Democrats can never gain a majority in either house ever again.

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      This is 100% how every single dictatorship in existence today works. Almost all countries in the world hold elections. But some are more democratic than others. Every single tyrant in power today has been or claim to have been democratically elected.

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        “Authoritarians get voted in. They never get voted out.”