Hold your nose and vote for Proposition 50 in November. That’s what I’m going to do, now that I’ve been forced to.
Afraid that what happens to every incumbent president at the mid-term elections — a loss of seats in the House for his own party — would happen to him in 2026, Donald Trump ordered red-state legislatures to redistrict in order to maximize Republican House districts and disenfranchise Democrats, and therefore Black and other minority Americans.
Which is what they are doing.
It wouldn’t be happening if some regular, patriotic Republican president were in the White House. A Mitt Romney would just roll with the punches, trying to govern in a manner that wouldn’t create the backlash Trump is creating by being, well, evil.
Fighting evil can cause a holding of the nose against th