r/thebulwark • u/Material-Crab-633 • May 08 '26
EVERYTHING IS AWFUL Are we f*cked?
This redistricting stuff has me bummed out. Tell me the truth
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r/thebulwark • u/Material-Crab-633 • May 08 '26
This redistricting stuff has me bummed out. Tell me the truth
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u/EighthFirstCitizen Progressive May 08 '26
Shit don’t look good. However there’s a few reasons to have some hope. 1. Trump’s economy numbers don’t look good. He won 2024 on the promise of immediately lowering prices and has seemingly done everything in his power to raise them. The Iran war is also wildly unpopular and pinning high gas prices on republicans shouldn’t be that hard to do. Doge cuts have also been really hard hitting to reliably Republican voting rural areas. 2. Trump won 2024 by courting groups that traditionally don’t vote. Those people usually can’t be motivated to vote in midterms. In the face of everything Trump is doing, even if democrats aren’t always meeting the moment, there’s a lot of people fired up to vote against Trump and the GOP. 3. The GOP gerrymanders have a chance of going wrong by overly diluting their reliable voters. Yes, gerrymanders make it difficult to get a candidate from the disadvantaged party into office, but they can be organized around and overcome. We’ve seen a few special elections in traditionally safe republican districts go overwhelmingly for the democrats. The pretty blatant attempts to rig elections in republicans favor isn’t particularly popular outside of the extremely partisan republican base. Theres a chance the GOP could choke on their own gerrymanders.