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“Manipulating the Decennial Census for political gain is so deeply undemocratic, and we need to talk about it in those terms.”
“To blatantly ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling, ignore the Census Bureau’s own employees’ determination that it could not be done in an accurate and efficient way, is amazing,”
The United States has been conducting the census for some two centuries, but Donald Trump and his cronies have a new idea of how to do it that involves screwing it up entirely in service to a racist, nativist project.
“The 2020 census has been polarized, has been politicized, by the current administration, and that really puts the integrity, the credibility, the reliability of the census at stake.”
There’s a lot to think about in terms of who “won” in the 2018 midterms, but there’s also a lot to think about in terms of how we locate electoral politics in our efforts to change the world.
