It was all but inevitable. Dozens of Democratic lawmakers fled the state Sunday to prevent the Legislature from voting on new, ultra-GOP-gerrymandered congressional districts.

If Democrats want to re-enact famous episodes in Texas history, they should have remained here and cast themselves as modern defenders of the Alamo: destined for doom but resolved to stay and fight. It’s not a good look to taunt Republicans with “Come and Take It” — an iconic reference to a cannon used in the Texas Revolution — from Illinois.

Even so, Texans know who is to blame for this pointless political theater: Republicans. There was no legitimate reason to redraw the maps ahead of the 2030 census. There was only a cynical desire for power.

President Donald Trump has a single-digit Republican majority in the

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