'Malignant' GOP voters will keep backing 'dumber and angrier' candidates no matter what happens...

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24. Rule of the Minority

Just look at the Senate. It amplifies the small state/ultra right power base. It's replicated at the state level where rural areas that tend to back ultra conservative candidates who don't compromise and are guided by just a few issues (taxes/abortion) dominate state legislatures. The Tea Party and Republican efforts to win state level election back in the 90s left us with Gerrymandered districts that largely represent rural areas that contribute little in the way of tax revenue and represent smaller and smaller portions of the population since these areas tend to have declining business prospects and therefore have trouble attracting/retaining younger folks (probably doesn't help these areas largely oppose immigration).

Dems would be smart if they started limiting how much tax revenue filters out of the cities and surrounding suburban areas into the rural areas. It's probably one of the reasons local taxes are so high in "blue" areas; they have to raise local taxes to counteract the net loss on the state and federal levels.