Having Republicans maintaining control of the majority of state legislatures for the 2nd census year in a row is problem. What
@FAH1223 is saying is that since the GOP controls most state legislatures in a Census year they will have a say in gerrymandering which further empower them. This means they can pass voter suppression laws which won’t be challenged by the Supreme Court. We could be in a scenario for the rest of this decade of having democratic presidents being obstructed by a Republican Congress and conservative Supreme Court. This is what minority rule means. Yeah they may never win another presidential election again but without a congress nothing gets done which the country going stagnant.
2030 census will be a midterm election year and 2040 the census after that will be the next time it will be on a presidential year. A lot of the people may call it doom and gloom but this is the reality. We may be faced with the prospect of divided government, obstructionism, hyper partisan politics and nothing being done for the next 20 years.
Breh
We will never see a Dem controlled House and Senate until the 2040s
Brehs on this forum are only focused on presidential years and that’s part of the problem as a society we have.
The rhetoric of the GOP becoming a regional party was always straight up BS. I know in the aftermath of 2008, when Dems controlled a lot of states and had more governors that there was this feeling but the governance choices and lack of urgency for 2010 has brought this.
My old boss a few years ago in the aftermath of 2014 midterms was pissed how the Dems lost 9 seats in the US Senate. Then he said that the GOP has mastered what the Dems did from 1952-1994 regarding the US House. Republicans went 40 years without winning the House!!
Now we are in the reverse. After 2022, the GOP is going to have the House well into the 2030s. And if Dems can’t win Senate in 2022 with a favorable map... things are gonna get spooky
Im old enough to remember when this board thought the RNC was done, would never win again, etc... i even remember several posters asserting that trump was destroying the party.
