Caucuses were briefed. Polls are being shared. And the push to swing California bluer is taking shape.
California’s Texas-thwarting gerrymander has swiftly transformed from fantasy to reality.
Democrats in the House and the state Legislature are coalescing around a plan to draw a half-dozen Republican incumbents into oblivion — and persuade California voters to approve the new congressional maps before next year’s midterms. Party leaders are closely tracking the dual-track developments in which lawmakers in Texas and California are moving, in partisan parallel, to shore up their respective party’s House majorities. California Republicans are casting about for a way to avoid extinction.
It all points to a high-stakes, big-dollar brawl thrusting California to the center of the political universe.
I would have agreed with you three years ago. But at a macro level, we are in proxy civil war - we are in the legal phase of a coup of the Constitutional US government by fascists. They are literally deposing our ruler: democratic constitutional law. A necessary part of that coup is control of the government’s three branches, and so denial of that control by any legal means necessary is itself an imperative.
I’m at the point where I accept the necessity of using the same tactics, if moves like this can help delay or avoid overt civil war.