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quite active and what they re doing doesn t create the greatest respect for democracy. today just ten days before christmas the out going lame duck republican governor scott walker who just lost his re-election bid to a democrat has just 24 days to go before his job and has signed a set of bills ran through by the heavily jerry mandered republican legislator. those deals are designed to hobble by stripping the incoming of significant powers. wait, that s not all. republicans also took a sledge hammer to the kneecaps of wisconsin voters by signing legislation that will limit early voting in wisconsin from now on. early voting in wisconsin is kind of a big deal. early voting in this past mid-term election shattered records and helped democrats in this election sweep every single statewide office. and wisconsin s two biggest
has just 24 days to go before his job and has signed a set of bills ran through by the heavily jerry mandered republican legislator. those deals are designed to hobble by stripping the incoming of significant powers. wait, that s not all. republicans also took a ledge hammer to the kneecaps of wisconsin voters by signing legislation that will limit early voting in wisconsin from now on. early voting in wisconsin is kind of a big deal. early voting in this past mid-term election shattered records and helped democrats in this election sweep every single statewide office. and wisconsin s two biggest cities wisconsin, and milwaukee, they had six weeks of early voting. not anymore. thank tuesday t thanks to the new early voting legislation they will be stripped-down to two weeks. making it harder for them to vote. that is exhibit a in the not so
which mueller comes out with a devastating report and congressional support for president trump begins to crumble in the way that it did during watergate, and we sort of have this rosy view of watergate where brave, honest republicans stood up. no, they didn t. they didn t turn against richard nixon until they had to turn against richard nixon. and the people turned first. and the people turned first. so when republican senators and republican house members are convinced that their electoral fate is better off diverging themselves from donald trump, they will do that because there s no love lost for donald trump among most of these. but when you have a jerry mandered, very polarized primary base electorate that s still solidly with trump, they are the voters and their leaders or elected officials will follow for them. and e.j., that goes to a migration we ve seen in a lot of
really mattered last night is what happened in the democratic takeover in the house of representatives. it is a huge victory for the democrats and for democracy. in a country where democracy does not always win, as we saw in the last presidential election. last night 51 million votes were counted for the democrats running for the house of representatives. 47 million votes were counted for the republicans. 4 million more votes were counted for the democrats, and this time the party that got the most votes won. this time democracy won, and democracy had to fight against jerry mandered congressional districts rigged by republicans to defy democracy. democracy had to fight against voter suappreciation where republican controlled states tried to make voting as difficult as possible because they know democracy is their enemy. democracy won. we couldn t say that two years ago, and that s why america had