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Re: “Gerrymandering issue to be decided by voters” (Page A1, Aug. 22).

Rep. Sam Liccardo mentioned, “don’t bring a knife to a gun fight.” Yes, we are in a fight. We now face, compliments of Project 2025 by the Heritage Foundation, what Italy had to contend with 100 years ago, that being the rise of the authoritarian state much on the model of Mussolini’s Italy.

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The Republican Party of today has adopted similar tactics: change the law when it suits you and consolidate power in any way possible. That’s the heritage of the “Heritage Foundation”: not our 240-year-old experiment in representative democracy but a throwback to the more common authoritarian rule by despots.

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