Why do eight radicals hold power over the entire US House of Representatives? | David Daley

There are hundreds of Congresspeople representing millions of Americans - yet undemocratic rules give people like Matt Gaetz outsized sway

It's simple math: when the score reads 210 to 8, the side with the much tinier number should lose.

Yet that's not how it works in the US House of Representatives.

David Daley is the author of Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count and Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy. He is a senior fellow at FairVote