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Days after taking office, he called a snap election for the parliament’s lower house in an attempt to consolidate his mandate.

They consciously deployed the nostalgic language of feudalism as a political smokescreen to obscure their moves to consolidate the cultural, political and economic power that would sustain their elevated social positions and the collective ascendancy of their race.

The trend across the 21st century has been for Democrats to consolidate advantages with college-educated voters while losing support among voters without a college degree.

The gambit helped to consolidate Republican support behind Garvey and vault him past fierce competitor Rep. Katie Porter, an Orange County Democrat, who finished a distant third.

All action on an increasingly deadly climate crisis would end or be reversed, the right’s repressive anti-trans panic would intensify in its reach and its cruelty, and the reactionaries who wrote Project 2025 would consolidate their power across the administrative state and the federal courts.