Steve's Reviews > Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind The Secret Plan To Steal America's Democracy

OK Daley, I'm convinced. Partisan gerrymandering is the most overlooked and underrated problem in American politics. The book was originally published in 2016 before Trump's surprising electoral college victory, but Daley wrote a lengthy and helpful epilogue that connects the dots from gerrymandered statehouse races (a number of states where the Democrats won more votes but fewer seats) to state voter suppression laws to Trump eking out an 88,000-vote win across three crucial states. In fact, if you are pressed for time, just read the introduction and epilogue. It covers most of what you need to know. It is truly essential reading if we are to save American democracy from extreme right-wing politicians — and I'm talking to reasonable Republicans as well. The gerrymandering has created safe Republican districts in which the only real contest is in the primary, forcing candidates ever more dangerously to the right.