SCOTUS control is determined by:

(A) A president where Rs can lose the pop vote by six points & still win the electoral college

And

(B) A Senate under nearly permanent GOP control except in the biggest of national landslides for Ds

Call it like it is: tyranny of the minority

A republic where one party can get 47% of the two-party vote and control two and a half branches of government is no republic at all

Sorry, but statehood for DC + Puerto Rico is not the fix. That’s like putting a bandaid on after getting shot in the leg with a 12-gauge. The only real solution is to redesign America’s electoral institutions from the bottom up. (Frankly I don’t see that happening any time soon.)

(In this case, the bandaid would be nice — but my point is not to lose sight of the real scale of the problem here.)

Yes, the point is that so long as we have institutions that are even *vulnerable* to the scale of partisan malapportionment that we have today, then they are too corruptible to support. All these Senate balancing acts make Dems feel good but it’s not solving the issue at all. https://twitter.com/hagan19/status/1307710744138457088