David Daley (Courtesy photo)

Over the last several years, few authors have done a better job of digging below the surface to chronicle what’s really going on in American politics – and in particular, the relentless brand of legal and policy hardball played by the Republican party – than David Daley. Daley’s best known book – which featured the provocative title, Ratf**ked– detailed how the political right has used partisan gerrymandering to rig elections and, in effect, disenfranchise millions of voters.

In his newest book, he digs even deeper to explain how gerrymandering is just one of the tools employed by Republicans – the other most notably is control of the courts – to cement what can only be described as a distinctly undemocratic brand of minority rule. The book is entitled “Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right’s 50-year ploy to control American elections,” and recently NC Newsline caught up with Daley in his home in Massachusetts to discuss it.

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