"Run In Circles, Scream And Shout!"

If this accurately reflects the White House view that Democrats can keep the House in 2022 and 2024 despite new voter suppression laws, the White House is seriously discounting the effect of gerrymandering in the upcoming round of redistricting. #fairmaps https://t.co/kqiKzi646m pic.twitter.com/IcYJgTPlag

— Michael Li 李之樸 (@mcpli) May 27, 2021

Problem.

I think sometimes Democrats underestimate the effect of gerrymandering last decade b/c they won the House back in 2018 after losing it in 2012. But they had some help. Court ordered redraws of maps in VA, NC, FL, TX. And the unexpected Trump dynamics in the suburbs. #fairmaps 3/

— Michael Li 李之樸 (@mcpli) May 27, 2021

In short, this is a Code Red, all hands on deck, moment for American democracy. And reports like @RonBrownstein’s about the sanguineness of some Democrats are deeply alarming. #fairmaps 5/

— Michael Li 李之樸 (@mcpli) May 27, 2021

But no solution.

Texas will hold a special session (or two) this summer to redistrict.  Thanks to CJ Roberts, Texas can do this with impunity. O blessed year of Jubilee!  But the GOP controls the Texas House and Senate.  What, then, are the Democrats and Joe Biden to do about redistricting in Texas?  The only weapon they have is to run the clock out every 30 days (each session can last no longer than that).  Wendy Davis famously did that during one regular session; made national news for it.  The governor called a special session and the bill she  opposed passed handily.

So what do we do?  Count on the courts to redraw maps again?  Run in circles, scream and shout?  Abandon all hope, ye who enter here, and discourage Democratic voters with your pessimism?

If you don't have a solution, don't harangue us about how awful the problems are.