Republicans Are Working to Undermine Direct Democracy

In working to subvert Medicaid expansion, the GOP-controlled legislature is also ignoring their constituents’ wishes

Miranda Yaver
3 min readMar 1, 2019

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Idaho State Capitol Building. Photo: powerofforever/Getty Images

During the 2018 midterms, the citizens of Idaho voted by a margin of 61 percent to 39 percent to approve Proposition 2, an initiative to expand Medicaid to approximately 91,000

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Miranda Yaver

Political science prof at Wheaton College (MA). @mirandayaver