New York Times columnist David Brooks and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart were greatly disturbed on Friday’s PBS News Hour at Texas’s mid-decade redistricting efforts, calling them part of the “corrosion of democracy” and “cheating by legal means,” and insist this is something worse than standard gerrymandering.
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Bennett then turned to Capehart, “We spoke to a Republican Congressman, Mike Lawler, on this program this past week. He's a Republican in New York. He opposes this redistricting and he says that it will result in mutually assured destruction of Democrats and Republicans both move forward. Is he right?”
Capehart began by telling Lawler to complain to President Trump about it, “This mutually assured destruction that Congressman Lawler talks about was initiated by the Republican president of the United States. And so I don't think it's a shtick that Texas — that state Democrats have left the state in an effort to deny them a quorum. Sure, this — the special session, they will call another one.”
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