Fateh was born in Washington, D.C., and is the son of immigrants from Somalia. He graduated from Falls Church High School and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from George Mason University.
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Look who loves democracy until it works.
Someone needs to push back against this and say, "We want this! We asked for it, by name!" Like your lame ass party and the other lame ass party don't fucking do shit so we started looking for people that will do shit. Guess what, we found them. Grow up and accept that if you do unpopular things, you will become unpopular.
Republicans generally have not liked democracy since the 60s.
Many of the recent Republican Presidential candidates did not win the popular vote even when they got into office. Many Republican drawn maps are rigged / gerrymandered such as Texas and before that North Carolina. Republicans were lighting ballot boxes on fire in 2020 and 2024. A few Republicans tried to remove Term Limits for Trump. The only reason the Republicans have a house and senate majority is because the house is capped at 435 and the senate gives 2 seats to every state regardless of the fact that North Dakota has 800k population, Wyoming 590k, and California almost 40 Million.
Sometimes Republican voters will literally poll that Democracy doesn't work.
Don't democrats also gerrymander when they have the opportunity?
They also bring lawsuits and challenge gerrymandered maps to get them redrawn more fairly.
Democrats are losing because republicans are gerrymandering and democrats suck at gerrymandering, making the house biased in favor of republicans.
Yes, it's like the only time democrats are willing to bring a gun to the gun fight.
I'm not giving them a pass but gerrymandering efforts have benefitted the Republican party significantly more which is why it's seen more as a red state issue