Asked whether two “unconstitutional” acts make a right as Democrats look to counter GOP redistricting efforts, Ken Martin said, “In this case, I would say yes.”
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin defended California’s redistricting efforts while criticizing Republicans’ own efforts as unconstitutional.
“If they’re going to do this and continue doing this nonsense, which is unconstitutional and illegal, we’re going to be forced to do it ourselves in other states,” Martin said in an interview with NBC News, referencing GOP redistricting efforts.
Asked whether two unconstitutional acts make a right, Martin said, “In this case, I would say yes.”
His comments come as Californians will decide Tuesday whether to approve the state’s Prop 50 ballot measure, which would allow the state to redistrict to favor Democrats in the midterm elections. The move came in response to Republicans’ redistricting efforts in Texas to favor the GOP, which sparked redistricting battles in state legislatures across the country.
The reality is the parties cannot be displaced or remade from the outside. They must be seized from within through primaries.
Republicans were already
Dems cannot be, I don’t think
Yeah, how’s the Whig party doing?
It fell apart due to the internal pressure of trying to keep together pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions while barreling toward a civil war over that very issue. It was destroyed from the inside, which backs up my point.
Big difference between falling apart and having something new arise from the remains, compared to the same organization continuing with minor internal changes.
Unless you can force them to fall apart, the difference is somewhat academic.
I think I got side-tracked on the “inside” vs “outside”portion of your statement.
What I’m saying is that “primaries” are not the only tool, and perhaps not the most effective. Not that there’s a lot of precedent.
What I think would happen is the party becomes irrelevant to its constituents and just kind of falls into irrelevance or effectively ceases to exist.
That’s very different from “seizing from within through primaries”, which can effect change but probably not the level of change which is the goal here.