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bombproofing, democratizing, and balancing.
National Interstate Popular Vote Compact
combine multimember districts with ranked-choice voting.
proportional representation system,
rebuilding the Supreme Court so it has fifteen justices: each party gets to appoint five, and then the ten partisan justices must unanimously appoint the remaining five. Until all fifteen are agreed upon,
we give too much attention to national politics, which we can do very little to change, and too little attention to state and local politics, where our voices can matter much more.
Quote of the book
“Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line.”
A key argument of this book is that polarization isn’t the problem, it’s the interaction between polarization and our political institutions that’s the problem.
