[genocidicbunny]

> 10% of the US is still huge in absolute terms, though.

Exactly. 'Proportion' doesn't imply majority, and in a country of about 350M people, that's 35M people that look at what's happening and go "I like this!"

Considering the situation in the US with how political representation is calculated, gerrymandering, non-proportional representation of high and low-population states, that 10% of the population can easily have outsized representative power at the federal and state levels. Which is exactly what we see right now.