they did what a traditional normal political party does. gerrymanders aggressively to help itself and get rid of some of the other team. if you really believe the things a lot of democrats say about the threat to democracy, i think that it means you need to have some applies on the other side. and they have just eliminated one of those potential allies. i have to admit, i have heard this argument before. illinois lost a congressional seat. they could have kept kinzinger in a seat that was reasonable and rational so that there are non-trumpy republicans who exist which is important theoretically we d all agree. and yet they were ruthless. we don t oopt we don t know how slim the maurgei majority is go be. we don t care. we only want to give the republicans one congressional seat of the 19. i m not going to blame the democrats for the reason kinzinger is not running again. two down, eight to go.