They’re not making existential crises like they used to.
Biblical floods, ice ages, flaming asteroids screaming towards Earth certainly threaten existence.
Texas gerrymandering? Not so much.
Earlier this month, California Democrats persuaded a majority of voters to cast aside the state’s voter-approved independent redistricting commission to redraw California’s congressional map mid-decade for purely partisan reasons.
California Democrats made the case that proposed gerrymandering in Texas – which was objectively an abomination – caused an existential crisis and the only way to stop it and President Donald Trump was to pass Prop 50 (another abomination).
“Voters have been able to hold two thoughts in their head at the same time, which is that they support independent redistricting but

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