I tell my kids all the time that I’m allergic to whining. This, at its core, is why I’m so hard on Democrats when they talk about gerrymandering.
Sure, it’s a little bit hypocritical, but that’s not really my gripe. The main part is that I have very little patience for the insistence that everything is rigged and there’s nothing to be done until somebody changes the rules.
Especially after an election like this one.
The complaint has shifted a little since Tuesday. It’s less that Democrats can’t win than that they should have won more — and that a wave this big should have handed them the Senate. But when I question that premise, some people on X seem to hear that I think the maps are great and gerrymandering isn’t a problem.
That’s not my position.
I’ve long supported redistricting reform, and I want it written into the North Carolina Constitution. I’d like rules that both parties have to live with, regardless of who holds the pen. Let’s just have a real, honest conversation about where…
