mr-generic.bsky.social

"While it’s clear that gerrymandering backfired in a big way for Republicans, we won’t always have a D+15 cycle. In a different year, many of these seats would have gone the way the map-drawers intended. And plenty of voters were drawn into districts where their voices were deliberately diluted, whether they ended up winning or not. Which is why I don’t want to celebrate this as a victory for the system; it was a victory in spite of the system. Voters shouldn’t have to hope that politicians overreach and lose their bet. They shouldn’t have to hope for a wave. The simple truth is that politicians should not be able to choose their voters in the first place. The real solution is a nationwide ban on partisan gerrymandering. Congress will soon have a new Democratic majority, and this is exactly what they should do with it. The reason Democrats drew Prop 50 was because we decided not to unilaterally disarm. But that doesn’t mean that the system doesn’t need to be fixed on a national level." plus.briantylercohen.com/p/t…

Except perhaps for even one solitary second not contract every ounce of power to the White House in your blind desperation to stay in the good graces of the least popular president in modern American history.

This you?