Dave Weigel

If you gerrymander and voters don't like it, that's the point of the gerrymander.

They can't stop you.

And two, just...

It might be popular.

It's certainly popular for Texas Republicans, what Greg Abbott's doing, although you poll Texas, most people don't like the gerrymander because it was just framed as I'm doing this for Donald Trump.

But they've gotten a lot bolder and Gavin was leader of that.

So I hate doing early 2028 predictions, except for I do think that.

It was true before that the governors who can actually resist Trump in meaningful ways and sue him and beat him occasionally have the advantage over, no disrespect to him, but people to judge who can't do that.

He can be on podcasts and he can go to rallies.

He cannot govern.

If you're in Congress, if you're Chris Murphy, you can give speeches, but you can't really win.

I mean, you can stop a nominee sometimes.

But what's more compelling?

Hi, Nashua.

I stopped a terrible nominee for the Office of Legal Counsel or...

I destroyed four Republicans with my bare hands.

Probably the second one.

Well, he has never gotten what he wants in the filibuster for a pretty simple reason, that right now the way the country is structured, most of what Republicans want to get done in a big new way can be done with 51 votes in the Senate or by suing in the northern district of Texas and getting the Supreme Court to say, yep, that has been the pattern of Trump's term so far.

You can't do Medicare for all that way.

You cannot have a president say, executive order, I'm getting rid of your health insurance.