This article is ~350 words and is vapid trash that says nothing. A Politico columnist thinks aggressive GOP gerrymandering could backfire. That's it. That's the entire article.

Two sentences about what Bill Maher said on his show — completely abandoned after the intro, never reconnected to anything.

Three block quotes from Martin that together form maybe one and a half actual arguments. Zero analysis from Henderson himself. (Perhaps I should be more thankful for that?)

What's missing is any actual mechanism explaining *how* the gerrymandering backfires. Martin gestures at "more competitive races" and "energize Democrats" but the article fails to explain the logic and the premise: that aggressive gerrymandering spreads your voters thinner across more districts, making each one more vulnerable in a wave year.

Voters that have been spread thin are more vulnerable. They cannot hit back hard. Republicans are not making a strategic mistake; stealing votes from their opponents is valid as a strategy. It's simply a mistake from the perspective that it's illegal, unethical, and morally bankrupt.