The Gerrymandering Doomcourse
This might wind up aging like milk, but I think I'm going to say it anyway: Calm down about the gerrymandering thing . Look, I'm not going to say that it's not bad, okay. It's bad. It's a parade of bad. It's another shower of shit in a rain showerhead of shit we've all been dealing with in this country for decades-- but... (and this is a big-ass but) we can't possibly predict what the ramifications are ultimately going to be. The problem with gerrymandering is that you can only do so much of it before it has the very real potential to backfire on you. Texas is going to be fascinating to watch this year, because its gerrymander is based on the 2024 election results and assumes that every electoral result after that would mirror those. Given, you know, all of this (gestures broadly to the world at large), that's not a bet I would have made, but I'm not the Texas GOP. Also, I do expect you're going to see more state GOPs taking a pass on furthe...