As F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” In coming months, Democrats are going to need all the first-rate intelligence they can find, and it starts right now with gerrymandering. They’re going to have to be for it as well as against it.
Being for it is easy. Backed by Republican myrmidons in Congress and enablers on the Supine Court, Donald Trump has fecklessly fined, fired, and flouted his way through his second presidency. The first chance to end this spree won’t come until the 2026 midterm elections, when voters could hand one or both houses of Congress to the Democrats. Trump would enter Lame Duckville, and J. D. Vance and other surviving hopefuls would start revving up their own golden escalators.
