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Because disenfranchising people is the solution to disenfranchising people. But who knows - this may be the least bad option.
I don't think anybody sane wanted to go there, but the reality of the right-wing's willingness to stoop to whatever absurd thing it takes to ensure their power-grab is built to last has left little other option but to fight fire with fire.
I think you're probably right, in the sense that not doing this would probably be even worse, but we're destroying the town to save it, as the saying goes. Win or lose, there won't be much left of a very important norm.
It's the difference between having a destroyed town and letting it be taken over by fascist that will use their power to both destroy the town and remove any opposition, leading to a situation where you have no power to even fix the town for decades into the future.
At least this would give us a chance to rebuild it. If we don't, we may never have the opportunity. If things settle again, these are the people who would agree to creating some rules around gerrymandering and even consider eliminating it across the country so it can never be used again to try and consolidate power.
But if we let the Republicans do so without challenge, they will enshrine it and it will never go away.
Useful idiot response.
They’re welcome to leave and move to a red state. I left a red state and went to a blue one last year. They can do it too.