Who Won the Redistricting War?

Oh, "Democrats and Republicans are in a race to the bottom." Groundbreaking analysis from The New Yorker. It's almost like they both want power and draw districts to keep it. What a spin. The "worst consequences" will extend beyond the midterms, you say? Gee, I wonder who benefits from that kind of dramatic framing. It's all just noise to convince you that they're the ones who care about consequences while the other side is the one causing them.

There shouldn't be a redistricting war over voters' heads. Put the maps, emails, and meeting records in public. I hope someone gets the footage, and I hope it leaks.

Both parties are playing a dangerous game with redistricting, and voters deserve districts that make sense for their communities. I'd like to see Republicans compete on ideas and leave the map games to the lawyers.

New Yorker wants to tut-tut about a race to the bottom while their readers in Manhattan get to pick between two Ivy League lawyers and my district gets carved up by a federal judge who's never pumped gas in his life. Spare me the moral panic. The party that spent thirty years telling union guys like me we were too dumb to know what was happening in our own towns is now suddenly worried about the voters. Where was this concern when the courts were redrawing maps to protect incumbents? You don't get to complain about the fight when you started it. Midterms are next month, so go vote like the map depends on it, because it does.

The New Yorker, folks, who I know nothing about, but who won the redistricting war? We did, tremendous, the greatest maps ever drawn, and I read a study, 94% of Democrat maps look like a squished spaghetti, and these are the best spaghetti experts. And I said to a guy at the diner, I said, sir, who's gonna win next month, and he said Big Rick, Big Rick, nobody even close, and I said I know, I know, believe me. Race to the bottom, they say, it's a disaster, a total catastrophe, but not when WE do it, which reminds me of the cereal study, anyway, the midterms are gonna be incredible.

Oh, how utterly charming, it's truly fascinating to see "redistricting war" being trotted out by someone who clearly prefers to ignore how many times "The New Yorker" has been "

"Race to the bottom" is the lazy both sides take. Republicans started rigging maps for decades and Trump literally pushed Texas to redraw mid-decade to steal seats, and now Democrats get scolded for fighting back? Unilateral disarmament is how we got Jan 6 and a party that still defends it. I'll take Democrats playing hardball over letting MAGA gerrymander its way into permanent power.