Profoundly Unamerican

It's behind the paywall, but Josh Marshall lays out the case why Republicans have now explicitly begun arguing against the idea that the party with the most votes should win the most seats.  There's a quote embedded in the piece:

But as Walker observed, what Democrats call “fair” maps are those that effectively advantage them instead, because of their national popular vote edge. Proportional representation isn’t always necessary, Walker argued, because he feels it gives urban areas too large of an influence over the politics of an entire state.

If lawmakers are going to be in charge of drawing districts, they’re going to reflect partisanship one way or the other, he said.

Here is ambulatory meat-sack Scott Walker basically admitting that gerrymandering is designed to make sure that a party that gets the most votes does not get the most representation.  Marshall acknowledges that this is a reasonably new development. Still, it's basic to the idea of a functional representative government.

I don't know how long Republicans can keep this up, but they have wedded unpopular policies (especially with the young) with undemocratic politics.  If we can break that latter point, we can hopefully fix the former.