They've already legalized gerrymandering based on partisanship. Now they've removed protections for minorities so that States' partisanship includes blatant white racism against them. In her dissent "Kagan noted the ruling functionally eliminates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and allows legislators to wipe out minority districts whenever they feel like it."
It's going to be a long game to reverse this. We'll need to win both Houses of Congress and the Presidency so that we can regain a majority on the Court. Their decision will make that all the more difficult but if we want to defeat this fascism it's what we must do anyway. They've played the long game in instituting their fascism so we can learn from that.

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