Show me autocracy

Missouri Republicans are going to amend the state constitution to use partisan gerrymandering to for all intents and purposes require liberal initiatives to obtain a supermajority while allowing conservative initiatives to pass with 50%+1:

Ahead of a possible fight over abortion rights, the GOP-controlled Missouri Senate on Thursday passed legislation that would make it harder for voters across the state to approve amendments to the state constitution. The constitutional amendment, which passed along a party-line vote of 24-10, would increase the number of votes required for a constitutional amendment to pass on the ballot — from a simple majority of more than 50% of those who voted to either 57% of those who voted or at least 50% of the statewide vote and a majority of those who voted in at least five of the state’s eight congressional districts. The proposal has the potential to dilute the voting power of the state’s two most diverse and Democratic-leaning congressional districts, which include Kansas City and St. Louis.

As I’ve said before and will say again, one of the Roberts Court’s worst atrocities (Rucho) was critical to the effectiveness of another (Dobbs.) And the anti-democratic effects of partisan gerrymandering have a compounding effect.