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Biden's student debt forgiveness for defrauded borrowers blocked by conservative court
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It was going to happen eventually. They've been less and less popular since Reagan left office as their greed, aggression and anti-American principles came to the forefront. The last two Republicans to actually win a presidential election were Bush in 04 and Bush in 92. Ken Paxton actually bragged in Texas that his voter suppression campaign is the reason the state didn't go blue. You'll notice that he's on trial for corruption now.
Point is: theyve known for a long time that they're not gonna be able to depend on popularity among voters to maintain power, so they've gone mask off. They're gerrymandering, they're suppressing votes. Hell, the trump white house decided not to respond to COVID at least in part because plagues tend to run through more populous areas so they thought it would kill more democrats. The supreme court stopped just short of giving the Republican controlled state legislatures the ability to ignore the results of an election entirely, but Republicans are ignoring supreme court orders to redraw gerrymandered maps and put together fake electors in 2020 anyway so let's see what (if any) consequences arise if they continue to ignore the law. Democracy has become incompatible with their continued power, and there was never any doubt that Republicans weren't going to give up power unless forced to.