…The proposed Texas map is designed to net the GOP up to five House seats — potentially enough to decide the majority…
Outside Texas, key Democratic governors have launched an aggressive counteroffensive to try to neutralize the GOP’s redistricting push.
…Newsom, who’s made no secret of his presidential ambitions, has openly accused Trump of “rigging” the midterms and suggested California could redraw its map to eliminate all nine GOP-held seats.
[New York Gov. Kathy Hochul] called Monday for disbanding New York’s independent redistricting commission and embracing partisan hardball, telling reporters that she’s “tired of fighting this fight with my hand tied behind my back…I cannot ignore that the playing field has changed dramatically, and shame on us if we ignore that fact and cling tight to the vestiges of the past,” Hochul said.
You are at war.
But, to continue the metaphor, this is like blowing up your own bridges so they can’t be used by the advancing enemy. Sometimes it’s necessary, but it’s not something you should celebrate. You are sacrificing important strategic instruments of prosperity for temporary tactical advantage.
We tried that approach with the filibuster. And look and where that got us. The USA as we know it is over.
We are in a new era. A much darker, more ruthless era.
I don’t disagree with you. It needs to be done. But it’s still a bloody shame.