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From The New York Times:
Deceased G.O.P. Strategist’s Hard Drives Reveal New Details on the Census Citizenship QuestionRepublicans find their courage in one of two ways: once they leave office and go shopping for a cable news gig, or once they drop dead and leave behind a pissed off family member and an uncleared hard drive.
Thomas B. Hofeller achieved near-mythic status in the Republican Party as the Michelangelo of gerrymandering, the architect of partisan political maps that cemented the party’s dominance across the country.
But after he died last summer, his estranged daughter discovered hard drives in her father’s home that revealed something else: Mr. Hofeller had played a crucial role in the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Files on those drives showed that he wrote a study in 2015 concluding that adding a citizenship question to the census would allow Republicans to draft even more extreme gerrymandered maps to stymie Democrats. And months after urging President Trump’s transition team to tack the question onto the census, he wrote the key portion of a draft Justice Department letter claiming the question was needed to enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act — the rationale the administration later used to justify its decision.
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Once assimilated into the GOP-Borg
No matter if one ceases to exist anymore. The mission of assimilating carries on by the rest.
When you have no self core as an empty vessel. The desire to fill it with something is painful.
The need to belong can be seen in the recruitment of the White Supremacists who are their to enlighten their prospects to how they have been so badly treated. Point who they should blame and provide the comrade the feeling of belonging as only the GOP-Borg can provide.
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