Betty Cracker links to an article about how Democrats and democrats need to pay more attention to state house races. Democrats focus entirely too much on winning the Presidency and not nearly enough on winning state house races. This is true. But partisan and natural gerrymanders make it exceedingly hard for Democrats to break the grip of GOP control of states like Ohio, Florida or Wisconsin. As conditions get worse in those states, it breeds the natural suspicion of "gubmint" that works to reinforce the GOP message that government never works.
Outside of my long hoped for schism in the Right between Trump and the institutional GOP, I don't see a way clear of this. I think House gerrymanders won't be TOO bad, but state house gerrymanders will be.
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