Not sure if Merlin posted this particular opinion piece, but it's a good one. Shows how, as we approach the nation's birthday, democracy is endangered more than ever:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/30/opinions/republicans-gerrymandering-census-hispanics-reyes/index.html

'The strategist, Thomas Hofeller, was a Republican known as "the Michelangelo of gerrymandering" for his work in creating partisan districts that benefited the GOP. Files on hard drives discovered by his daughter after his death showed that he wrote a 2015 study that found that adding a citizenship question to the census would lead to more Republican-friendly congressional maps..
Files on the drives also showed that he wrote the key portion of a draft letter that the Department of Justice used to maintain, dubiously, that the citizenship question was needed to help enforce the Voting Rights Act. The Times noted that "the disclosures represent the most explicit evidence to date that the Trump administration added the question to the 2020 census to advance Republican Party interests." '

I might add that they also use unconstitutional shenanigans to put their candidates on the Supreme Court so as to get decisions allowing them to continue to gerrymander.

I honestly don't know how you can be a Republican and call yourself an American 'patriot' anymore...