To defeat the Texas gerrymander, Democrats need to go nuclear
Excellent discussion of strategy to defeat the MAGA push for totalitarian power This link is a gift: https://wapo.st/414kptg. Read the whole article for details.
"During the decades-long nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, leaders on both sides relied on a state of mutually assured destruction to keep the two countries from stumbling into an apocalyptic war. There are two strategic concepts from that era that apply well to Democrats today: counterforce and countervalue.
Counterforce posits that the best way to deter an opponent is to credibly threaten the use of one’s own nuclear capability to strike at the opponent’s nuclear forces. In the context of today’s redistricting wars, that means neutralizing the weapons Republicans are using — directly, surgically and proportionally — within the sandbox of redistricting, as we’re seeing from New York and California. They gerrymander their big red state; we gerrymander our big blue state.
It’s good that Democratic leaders are trying to leverage counterforce deterrence on redistricting. But, if New York, California and other blue states want to deter red-state aggression more comprehensively, they also need to consider the grislier logic of countervalue. Rather than threatening to destroy an adversary’s military capabilities, a countervalue strategy in the context of actual nuclear war is focused on making credible threats against cities with tens of millions of civilians on the theory that those losses would be simply intolerable."
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