By #NormEisen via #TheContrarian Aug 9, 2025
"Now we have another #democracy push-pull, and the outcome will be as important to our future as any of them: #Trump’s attempt to steal five congressional seats in #Texas by making an already grotesque #gerrymander even worse–and Texas #Democratic legislators’ refusal to go along with it. They did so at great personal sacrifice by breaking quorum and leaving the state so that the illegitimate gerrymander could not pass."
@iuculano That's not how the US system of government works, though.
This isn't Trump's attempt to steal five congressional seats. That's not how this works. Instead, folks elected through democratic processes the officials tasked with setting district borders. Trump has nothing to do with that. That is between those representatives and their voters.
There's no stealing, there's just conspiracy theories that rely on lack of information about governmental processes.
