In politics, temporary is forever.

If the ongoing fight over “temporary” healthcare subsidies causing the federal government shutdown is any indication, California Democrats will fight tooth and nail to ensure Prop 50’s “temporary” gerrymandering is forever as well.

In 2021, Congressional Democrats, led by then-President Joe Biden, passed legislation enhancing subsidies for health insurance for many Americans. These enhanced subsidies were only supposed to be temporary, which is why they are set to expire now just a few years later, and now many of the same Democrats who passed these “temporary” subsidies are demanding they be extended.

In fact, very few things labeled temporary by politicians ever are. Instead, “temporary” is either just a sales pitch or a budget gimmick.

In the case

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