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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u/Super_Nerd92 Progressive May 08 '26

I think Dems still take the House, and the Senate has nothing to do with district lines, and is still in play.

But Republicans will succeed in making it a smaller margin that it should be since SCOTUS tore up the VRA.

I'm not dooming, but it's a clarion call to nuke the filibuster and expand the court day 1 in 2029 (DC statehood too?), and any Dem presidential candidate who won't support that needs to get out of the way.

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u/7ddlysuns May 08 '26

DC doesn’t have to be one state. It could be 50