Michael Knowles

I'm going to talk about how unfair all of it is.

And obviously it is, and they're terrible.

Also, this is how gerrymandering works.

Meaning that the party in charge typically tends to gerrymander.

And also, I'm just going to point out for the sake of intellectual honesty that the Republicans started this, okay?

The Republicans did start this in Texas.

Gavin Newsom did try to retaliate in California.

The Republicans did not retaliate in Indiana, but the Democrats did retaliate in Virginia.

Republicans will likely now retaliate in Florida.

And so this says to me two things.

One,

We are going to increasingly polarize as a society because there will no longer be such a thing as a purple state because in every purple state, nine out of the 10 seats will go to whichever party has the slight majority in the state legislature.

And two, this should be a lesson to Republicans.

that Democrats should have learned a long time ago.

If you break the glass, the glass does not unbreak.

So Democrats learned this lesson when they smashed the judicial filibuster, and that led to the appointment of three, count them, three Trump justices on the Supreme Court of the United States.

And so I think Republicans might want to take just a hot minute and think about all of the calls right now to kill the Senate filibuster entirely as Democrats are about to take the House and are aiming toward 28 and 30 until we're taking the Senate and the presidency.

Yeah, so I mean, obviously, I think that there's a lot of merit to the counterarguments to what I'm saying.

I actually agree with many of the things that Matt is saying.

It's sort of a prudential, as you might say, Michael, call as to what to do.