Democrats are facing a gerrymandering armageddon. It was avoidable | David Daley

A handful of party figures warned about the power of redistricting. Too many leaders ignored them

There are many reasons why Democrats find themselves on the wrong end of a gerrymandering armageddon.

There's John Roberts and the US supreme court, who pretended partisan gerrymandering is just politics as usual, left voters naked to extreme power grabs, and failed the nation when voters most needed the courts' protection.

David Daley is the author of Antidemocratic: Inside the Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections as well as Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count