How are Republicans justifying this redistricting mania?

[NCDem47]

Serious question. How has this been publicly explained to media or their constituents?

I mean, we KNOW the real reason--Trump wants it so he doesn't have to answer to the gerater electorate at midterms.

Are Republicans saying its in repsonse to Califirnia which was just a response to Texas who started the ball rolling? How did Texas with a straight face spin this in the first place?

I fear for America. I mean, I really do.

[sop]

1. It's no secret, Republicans' only justification is winning elections and maintaining power.

[NCDem47]

2. I mean, is there honestly no spin and they just avoid media and voters?

"We're doing it because...reasons"

[sop]

5. For me, nothing is more emblematic of this than Mitch McConnell's handling of Supreme Court nominations.

Following the death of Justice Scalia in 2016, McConnell announced that the Senate would not hold a hearing or a vote for any of Obama's nominees. Mitch justified it by saying it was an election year and "voters should decide." There was absolutely no precedent for this.

McConnell justified this power grab by inventing the "McConnell Rule," an unofficial rule he just pulled out of his ass, stating that a president's Supreme Court nominee would be blocked during an election year if the president's party did not control the Senate. It was simply an exercise of raw, naked, in-your-face political power.

In 2020, after the death of Justice Ginsburg, Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, also during a presidential election year. This time McConnell rammed a vote on Barrett through the Senate, justifying it by saying the vote should be held because the presidency and the Senate were controlled by the same party.

Republicans do whatever is necessary to gain and keep power, justifications don't matter to them.

[Emile]

3. My Republican neighbor is for term limits. I need

to ask her if she is for gerrymandering. Gerrymandering makes it harder to vote someone out of office.

[haele]

4. I think the GOP has probably reached max gerrymander.

At least in most red states.
Now they're going to start diluting their own voting base, trying to spread their rabid radical types across all the districts.
Unless they can really, really tighten the voter suppression down, the GOP is going to start to lose their percentage of majority in their "safe" districts in their quest to take the more purple districts. It's a numbers game, and there's still a lot of groups that are not completely dedicated to "the Masters".