Wow, I’m sorry that you’re accurate. Just to see this one fact alone about redistricting in 25 states is proof enough. When SCOTUS gutted the key provision in 2013 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 it was horrible. The reason they said was basically because “racism is over now, it’s been almost 50 years”. The more I think about that, the more depressing it is. Time does not heal systemic racism, only entrenches it, as your quote from Bannon shows. SCOTUS in their decision forgot about the 2000 election in Florida and the NAACP lawsuit of sheriffs blocking the roads and turning black voters back (they dropped the lawsuit unfortunately), and how The attorney general Catherine Harris overturned the rule at the last minute that took tens of thousands of black ex-prisoners of the rolls. Those were tricks that handed the state, and the election, to Bush (not the governor at the time of Florida but his brother). I hate recalling facts like those, because those systemic racist tricks they pulled in just that one example show the willful disregard by Chief Justice Roberts in that decision—facts he undoubtedly knew—led to a “warped” decision that that voting provision in ‘65 VR Act wasn’t needed because those states could be trusted and everything was going great down there, racist polling practices had been eliminated the whites can be trusted now. Then looked what happened next, as you described, 25 states went back to policies of systemic trickery, an increase from the number that were being policed by the 1965 Act.

Anyway, I don’t think I can comment of the rest of the points you raise or I’ll get even more depressed and ruin my own Sunday morning (I hate when my brain gets stimulated like this —LOL). Seriously, thanks again as always for continually raising these critical issues and truths, you’re wonderful.