'The elite proponents of gerrymandering and voter suppression know they can't win honest elections, and that fact horrifies them.'
One hundred and fifteen years ago, on Jan. 1, 1907, the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote to his wife, Clara:
Rilke was a delicious wordsmith, and these are some of his finest phrases. But we ought not imagine that his call for a deep embrace of the new year as a moment of hope and opportunity was merely a romantic notion. Until we remember that the coup was averted, and a new president and Congress turned the ship of state back in the direction of responsible governance.
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