…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.
For the most part, in my lifetime, democrats have always been sitting with their thumbs up their asses.
Remember, the GOP have been working towards this shit for 50+ years- literally establishing “news” orgs like Fox ad propaganda outlets, and gerrymandering at every opportunity or fucking around with judicial nominations, etc.
Trump isn’t the cause. He is a symptom.
This has been a republican strategy decades in the making. The comment above framed it as an arms race and that’s a good way to put it. They’ve had the overthrow of democracy in their heads as an objective and have undertaking a concerted strategy to achieve it.
The democrats were always going to be at a disadvantage simply responding to that, but that disadvantage is made a lot worse by the fact that they don’t seem to want to respond to it. They have an idea of what this country is and that comes with a bunch of lines their unwilling to cross. Meanwhile republicans had a clear idea of what they want this country to be and were willing to trample any line, break any law or norm, in order to make it a reality.
This? The news story we’re responding to? It may represent the first stumbling steps off the starting line. But it doesn’t change the fact that the starting pistol sounded decades ago and the republicans have been running the whole time.
Too little, to late. I don’t want that sentiment to be true, but I find it hard to look at this situation and view it in any other way.