Hardcore conservatives adore infrastructure, and they're phenomenally good at building it. This isn't to say they're necessarily committed to constructing roads and bridges and dams; it's the infrastructure of their own movement — the one that has helped Republican politicians seize power in state legislatures over the past decade — that inspires their real dedication.
Their efforts have been chronicled in books like Jane Mayer's “Dark Money” and Nancy MacLean's “Democracy in Chains.” A conservative donor class, seeking to protect its agenda from the uncertainties of a democratic system, has erected a scaffolding of legislative groups and gerrymandered districts with the care and diligence of a structural engineer.
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