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> Democrats, despite winning the popular vote in all but 2 elections since 1988, are pretty much completely out of power

This shit pisses me off so much. Why can't they play by the same rules? The supreme irony is, if Dems were willing to occasionally fight dirty/play to win as well, at least when they still had some power, it would have likely forced Republicans to try to govern well occasionally rather than simply always playing to win.

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What would be an example dirty tactic the Dems could have used?

NY for example had a map that was gerrymandered to benefit dems. Their SC struck it down and instead we ended up with a map that slightly benefits Republicans.

This is an example of something that happens across the country. Most deep red states are heavily gerrymandered. In contrast, almost every single state that uses an independent redistricting commission is blue. This means Dems are unable to play by the same gerrymandering tactics as Republicans

I think u/mrkeen might have been referring to phony criminal charges against a political opponent, for example. Or I dunno, hundreds of thousands of ballots dropping at 4AM in some central counting location they control with 100% being for their candidate.

There are some pretty good examples on: The Alt-Right Playbook: You Go High, We Go Low on youtube

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