If the partisan gridlock behind the longest government shutdown in U.S. history isn’t enough to get you down, consider that the political extremism that makes cooperation to run the government difficult is certain to get much worse next year.

The results of Tuesday’s election tell us Republicans and Democrats are heading for an all-out war to control the composition of U.S. House districts through unprecedented mid-decade revisions.

President Trump began the battle with a push to have Republican-dominated Texas redraw their districts with the goal of getting five more GOP members elected to Congress.

The President’s motivation is to avoid Democratic congressional oversight through hearings and investigations, like he endured when Republicans lost the House during his first term.

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