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What the heck happened in North Carolina?

The trickery was shocking, but no surprise given NC's history.

Duke law professor Jedediah Purdy said North Carolina is a “microcosm of the country’s hyper-partisan politics. . . ”
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1/ In 2011, the GOP-held NC legislature approved a racial gerrymandering that diluted the votes of African Americans to maximize GOP seat gains.

It's what Levitsky and Ziblatt call Constitutional Hardball.

It comes from desperation, from knowing that . . .
2/ . . . the GOP base is shrinking.

The GOP morphed into the party of (largely) white Christians.

Because their base is shrinking, they can see that their medium and long-term prospects are not good.
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