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> " "political ratfucking" (whatever that means)"

That might sound like generic senseless profanity, but it's actually a term with specific meaning: "Ratfucking is an American slang term for political sabotage or dirty tricks."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfucking

Whether or not ratfucking is indeed happening here as ESR asserts is another matter. I mean only to comment on the meaning of the term.