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I've been screaming this since 2009.
Others have been screaming longer.
/signed.
Make it hurt. Stick it to the hilt and twist it.
There's an internal cost to gerrymandering that the moderate Republicans are paying in spades. The Dick Cheney wing of the party drew all these cloistered bright-red districts, only to see neoconservatives forced out of the party by their distilled MAGA base 20 years later.
I think conservative Democrats (of which Gavin Newsom and Kathy Hochul are increasingly aligned) see a gerrymandered blue state majority presenting a similar threat. Rather than a rump caucus of Pelosis and Durbins and Cuomos, they'd be threatened with upstart campaigns from more Mamdanis and Soto-Martinezes and Ilhan Omars.
Who wants that?
So liberals will make noise about fighting fire with fire. But then they'll sit on their hands, fully aware that a MAGA majority benefits conservative Dems who can present themselves as "the only other viable alternative" in purple districts. They don't want to run more AOCs or Sanderses. They want more Slotkins and Schiffs and John Delaneys.
Hopefully they are starting to realize they don't have a choice. Either run more AOCs or cede all power to Republicans.
Given how the party behaved in '20, '22, and '24, I think they've already made their choice.
I'm pretty sure if the Democrats started playing the same game the Republicans are playing they'd dominate. They need to grow up, put on their big girl pants, and get back to governing instead of letting the republicans steal their lunch.
Democrats have already been playing this game. Illinois already only has 2 Republicans in the house, California uses a jungle primary that helps prevent Republicans from winning. New York has a lot of close districts already.
Beto O’Rourke: Governors in [blue] states all say some variation of “You better watch out what you do. If you do that, we’re going to strike back.” I would love, and I think the country would love, if Democrats got off the back foot and stopped reacting and responding with “If you do this, then I’m going to do that.” F— that. Take the offense—go after these guys. This is the game now. There are no refs; no fouls are going to be called. There’s no consequence or penalty for Trump redrawing the maps in Texas mid-decade. Stop pretending like there is. Stop waiting for them to do it when clearly, that’s what they’re going to do if we’re unsuccessful in this quorum break. We have an opportunity with Democratic governors to seize the initiative and not just wait to be hit and then to hit back, but start that redistricting process now, in California, in New York, and any state where Democrats control the governor’s mansion and the legislature. Quit f—ing around and waiting when you know exactly where this thing is going.
Yep
They want to focus on one battle at a time, because they don't want to win the war. The Dems he's complaining about take most of the same bribes as Republicans.
We passed the point of "hitting back" being enough decades ago.
Doesn't matter if Texas pulls this off, every blue state needs to start proactively fighting back
Like Beto said, if so.eone doesn't want to fight, they can get the fuck out of office. All they're doing is stopping someone else from fighting.
Gerrymandering has been an obvious problem for decades. The only people that didn't see a problem are those congress critters that got elected to one. ("Well, it worked to get me elected so it's obviously not broken.")
The shape of my very blue congressional district in a very blue state most closely resembles projectile vomit on a linoleum floor.
Democrats have had multiple opportunities to fix this shit over the decades, and instead they've just been using it to their advantage wherever possible. The Fair Representation Act has been our best opportunity to fix gerrymandering, and it died in committee in every congressional session since 2017.
I would argue most of the elected representatives at the state and federal levels have no interest in fixing gerrymandering, because gerrymandering is what got them elected.
Missouri voted to get rid of gerrymandering. Of course the state overthrew it, and are now trying to crack another district because having a chokehold isn't enough of an advantage.
We must do everything to tear down the republican traitor filth.
Yeah it really is fight fire with fire time
I wonder how many Republicans would be unseated with rank choice voting....
Probably not as many as you think. People simply underestimate the amount of stupid people in the US and the extend to which people hate Democrats because of their spinelessness.
Even now, at the night of Trump's bullshit, people hate Trump they don't love Democrats.
Because the current democratic leadership has no ideas, has no vision other than the status quo.
They are fucking opposing progressive candidates like the NY mayor.
We're truly fucked, stuck between fascists and neo cons disguised as Democrats.
The iron silo was erected in 1996 and we know they were working on it at least as far back as the '70s with Nixon, Ailes, Weyrich, et. al. The current conflict has not been contained within a culture war because the GOP does not want it to.
The redistricting war must happen next/now. Battle lines must be drawn out in open to reflect what the GOP has already implemented in secret in across the country. Bring it out in the open. Everything should be loud and obvious so nobody can hide from the reality of what happens next.