They have all been ignored. Maryland’s Senate refused to hold a vote on redistricting, and Ferguson has declared the discussion over. The filing deadline for congressional candidates in Maryland was Tuesday, so any change in district lines will be even more complicated to carry out now.
Let me be clear: I absolutely hate gerrymandering. It results in elections where the results are predetermined. While both parties have gerrymandered in the past, over the last two decades Republicans have gone way overboard, rigging district maps to ensure huge GOP state legislative majorities in places like North Carolina where the two parties are roughly at parity.
But Democrats in other states did respond—moving heaven and earth to do so. California Democrats had to get a ballot initiative passed. Virginia Democrats have had to hold two separate votes in the legislature and still must get a measure approved by voters. But Democrats could pick up nine seats from those two states alone.
So what’s up with Ferguson? He has given a few rationales for his moves. He claims that the redistricting plan is far short of the votes it needs to pass. He should prove that by holding a vote. Whatever they say in private, I suspect some Maryland state senators might not actually be willing to go through with a vote that would be cast as helping Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.
Why the bullshit? My guess is that Ferguson and other state Senate Democrats don’t like the idea of being pushed by national Democrats and Governor Moore (a relative newcomer to Maryland politics, who is positioning himself for a presidential bid) to do anything, never mind a hyperpartisan action like gerrymandering. Politicians love to think of themselves as leaders and statesmen. Gerrymandering on the orders of party bosses is neither. Maryland Democrats aren’t alone in being wary of gerrymandering. Republicans in Indiana’s state Senate recently refused Trump’s demand to gerrymander the state’s two Democratic U.S. House seats out of existence. Liberals like me cheered Indiana Republicans’ move. Shouldn’t we be consistent and praise Maryland Democrats too?
Why is this so hard for Democratic officials to understand? Bipartisanship is theoretically good. But it was stupid for Joe Biden to spend his first two years as president constantly praising Mitch McConnell and other Senate Republicans who had acquitted Trump after his treasonous acts on January 6, 2021. Refraining from using the legal system to punish your political rivals is in theory the correct practice. But Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Biden Justice Department taking essentially as long as possible to file charges against Trump was a huge mistake.
But we constantly have to watch as Democratic Party politicians, who have far more power and influence than regular citizens, do the bare minimum. Maryland Senate Democrats not only won’t redraw their state’s House districts, they won’t even hold a vote on the idea. Spineless. Pathetic. If Trump, JD Vance, and the rest of the GOP succeed in turning America into an autocracy, they could not have done so without a lot of Democrats like Bill Ferguson.
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