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    Apologies for piling on to this completely worthless article, but I think it's important to note (not that most others are of any other mindset on this point) that the Ted Cruzes and Breitbart/GOP psychos do understand that logically their line of thinking would involving "hardening" every public space a potential shooter could target, but they simply don't care about non-school shootings (to be fair they don't truly care about dead elementary school kids, its just so beyond the pale that they have to actually engage with the aftermath in a real way. ) For dead grocery shoppers/church goers/etc., Ted Cruz/GOP psychos are entirely off the "tough shit its a consequence of our 2A rights" variety. At this point the "more policing" aspect seems to be almost entirely feature and very little bug.
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    I sincerely hope you're right on the enthusiasm point, I'm just skeptical that SCOTUS will be the tipping point for a significant number of people given all the other shit this administration has done that should have people frothing at the mouth to vote. I think we're in complete agreement on the gerrymandering point - the changing demographics are too much for this iteration of the Republican party to have popular support for much longer, so the Repub plan has been for some time now to stock as many lifetime federal judges on the bench as possible to scuttle any positive legislation the Democrats pass.
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    I think people expecting some huge boost in turnout are going to be disappointed. The importance of SCOTUS and ahistorical nature of what the GOP did in 2016 is too obscure for most voters. Even if it were to really rile people up, I think Republicans would take that tradeoff. Their plan for sometime has been to stock the judiciary with young right wing psychos and gerrymander like hell to maintain power in the face of changing demographics. They'd trade getting a supermajority on the court for the next 10+ years for invigorating the Dam base and reducing Trump's election chances without a second thought.

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