Luther has an excellent piece on the homepage about Democrats’ selective outrage over gerrymandering. One of the examples they are most outraged about is Wisconsin. The state is regularly a toss-up in statewide elections for president, U.S. Senate, or governor, yet it has a large Republican majority in the state assembly (currently, 64–35). They take that as prima facie evidence of gerrymandering and decry it as an unfair attack on democracy.
It’s tiring for Democrats to say democracy is under attack every time things don’t go their way electorally, and Republicans have in many respects simply outcompeted Democrats in redistricting, as Luther writes. But the disparity is nonetheless worth explanation. The best one I’ve seen was written by John Johnson of Marquette University Law School in 2021.
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