A Busy Week in Trump Outrages

By Mort Kondracke

Rigging Elections

Donald Trump is constantly claiming his losses (as in 2020) were “rigged,” but now he’s leading a Republican effort to rig the 2026 mid-term elections. In the process, he’s accelerating the anti-democratic process whereby politicians choose their voters instead of voters’ choosing their politicians.

Getting Republican state legislatures to gerrymander their Congressional districts to retain control of the House—and deprive Democrats of any opportunity to pass legislation, investigate the executive branch and block Trump—is only the latest of many Trump efforts to undermine American democracy.

They include trying to steal the 2020 presidential election by legal and illegal means (e.g. the Jan. 6 Capitol invasion.) Also, by usurping the powers of Congress (possible because he owns the Republican Party and punishes any deviation), disrespecting the rule of law and lying so habitually that he’s confused much of the electorate about what truth is.

He’s succeeded in prodding Texas Republicans to gerrymander five Republican-engineered House seats. Other efforts are under way in Missouri (one seat pickup) Indiana (maybe 1), Ohio (1 or 2) and Florida (maybe 1).

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