Interesting to see if California follows suit. Governor Newsom has his eye on the 2028 prize it seems. If the Dems do not wake up and start playing the same game the GOP is playing, they will never win. Taking the higher ground is such a nice concept, but it's also what losers say to feel good about not winning. Meanwhile, those willing to break/bend/change rules to ensure they continue to win will, well, continue to win.

I think it's important to remember how California got here. In the 2000 redistricting, the state legislature agreed to conduct an extreme bipartisan gerrymander, drawing every seat to be as safe as possible so that no incumbent could get voted out without losing a primary. This was widely understood to be a conspiracy of politicians against democratic accountability, and thus voters decided (with the support of many advocacy orgs and every major newspaper in the state) to put an end to it.

That's not the redistricting Newsom wants for 2028, and I tend to agree that Dems have to play the game right now, but I'd really like to see them present some sort of story for why it's not going to happen again.

> Governor Newsom has his eye on the 2028 prize it seems

This makes me feel dread. I just don't see him dragging moderates in the middle of the country to the polls, or getting people in the leftist part of the Democratic Party to not "but but but" their way out of voting against fascism again.

Oh well.