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Facebook Tweet Email Link London  —  The United States is sliding into 1930s-style autocratic politics, billionaire Ray Dalio has warned. “I think that what is happening now politically and socially is analogous to what happened around the world in the 1930-40 period,” the founder of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, has told the Financial Times. State …

On Sunday, GOP Texas Gov. Greg Abbott made it clear: His party’s fight to gerrymander the state’s congressional map “could literally last years.”  But as the story has played out since Texas Republicans first met in early June to discuss redrawing congressional districts, another thing has become apparent: This is an authoritarian powergrab.  Abbott and Texas Republicans are seeking to …