David Frum on Trump’s Gerrymandering Loss in Indiana: When You’re ‘Threatening’ the Grandchildren of Representatives, ‘That Brings a Little Steel to the Spine’

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FRUM: “There is a culture of decorum and decency that Midwesterners congratulate themselves on. When the president’s people are calling the grandchildren of state representatives and threatening grandchildren, your friends won’t like you anymore, that brings a little steel to the spine. The last thing, there’s — given the way the vote is shaping, if people are allowed to vote freely and fairly in ‘26, gerrymanders can easily go into reverse. What you’re doing in a gerrymander is you’re taking votes where you feel safe, and giving away some of your margin of safety to boost your vote in other areas of the state where you feel less safe. But that only works if your margin of safety is really there. Gerrymanders can turn into what political experts call dummymanders, where you give away your margin of safety and then you discover instead of being safe everywhere, you’re safe nowhere.”