How to avoid a race to the bottom
Friends,
When Democrats gathered in Philadelphia eight years ago, Michelle Obama famously declared, “When they go low, we go high.”
But now that Texas’s Governor Greg Abbott — at the presumed direction of Trump, — has gone so low as to seek to super-gerrymander Texas’s congressional districts to come up with five additional Republican seats in order to maintain Republican control of Congress after the 2026 midterms, Democrats appear to be giving up the high road.
Good!
California’s Governor Gavin Newsom is threatening to redistrict California.
Some fear this tit-for-tat will turn into a race to the bottom that will further erode American democracy. With control of Congress hanging in the balance and the Supreme Court giving its blessing to partisan gerrymandering, they see California’s move as dangerous.
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