Gerrymandering is terrible. “Voters should choose candidates, not the other way around.” It’s fundamentally undemocratic, removing the ability of citizens to choose their represantatives.
As usual, it is the Trump and the GOP who decide to take the next step to degrade American Democracy. At Trumps direction, Texas is stepping away from the every ten years rule in the Constitution (Article I, Section II) to redistrict. The timing, which seems obviously unconstitutional to me, is so the changes will favor Trump. The redistricting is obvious and nakedly partisan, the whole point is to get another five GOP seats. There is no mystery of what’s going on, no one is trying to hide the motives and goals.
The Democrats have had enough. When the other team cheats, you start cheating too. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Now New York and California are looking at doing identical disgusting tactics in retaliation. Meanwhile the GOP looks to extend the same strategy in their other states.
This quote is dead-on: “The Texas Republicans are taking us on a race to the bottom,” said Representative Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat who lamented in an interview that his party must reluctantly participate in “this rotten system.”
Just awful.