Democrat Voters Support ‘Retaliatory’ Gerrymandering
Progressive policy ambitions meet practical realities as Americans weigh costs and consequences.
The coverage treats “retaliatory” gerrymandering like a clever chess move, as if the real story is partisan symmetry. But if almost everyone agrees gerrymandering is wrong, celebrating payback politics is an admission that principle comes second to winning. Conservatives have a simple objection: **two wrongs do not create legitimacy**.
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More than half of those who voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 election say it’s justified to gerrymander in one state to retaliate against other states that gerrymander, results of a new national survey of U.S. adult citizens reveal.
Fully 92% of citizens agree that it’s a problem when states draw legislative districts that intentionally favor one political party, including 73% who say it’s “a major problem” and 19% who deem it a minor problem, according to a national poll by The Economist/YouGov conducted May 9-11.
Democrat citizens (89%) and Independents (74%) are more likely than Republicans (57%) to think gerrymandering constitutes a major problem. Similarly, 89% of those who voted for Harris label it a major problem, compared to 60% of Trump voters.
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The coverage treats “retaliatory” gerrymandering like a clever chess move, as if the real story is partisan symmetry. But if almost everyone agrees gerrymandering is wrong, celebrating payback politics is an admission that principle comes second to winning.
Conservatives have a simple objection: two wrongs do not create legitimacy. When voters start accepting map-rigging as normal, public trust erodes and politics becomes a permanent arms race. That is not reform. It is institutional decay dressed up as strategy.
The answer is not moral licensing for whichever side feels aggrieved. It is clearer standards, transparency, and courts that enforce the rule of law consistently. A system that rewards retaliation will eventually punish everyone, starting with voters who feel their voice no longer matters.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.