of public opinion in this country is kind of their mom static. if public opinion turns again, it won t matter. because of the way gerrymandering is being used to cement republican controlled the, house you have these states that are basically 50/50. democrat republican states that are going to give you know, 60 70 80% of their congressional seats to republicans. you have a supreme court that has struck down anti gerrymandering laws. or the has ruled that the constitution doesn t allow them to full on gerrymandering. a court that does that because the workings of a kind of minority therrien presidential, system democrats, seven out of the last eight elections their votes. due to all of these counter authoritarian institution in american, life they are reinforcing themselves. it is just like a bowl of gun structures slowly started squeezing the life out of