National Review senior editor Charles C. W. Cooke, on today’s edition of The Editors, highlighted the hypocrisy in Democrats’ outrage over GOP-led gerrymandering in Texas.

“It’s quite funny watching Democrats say, ‘If you do this, we’ll be forced into . . .’ Well, hang on a minute, forced into what? You already did it,” Cooke said. “The New York Times has made this point quite clearly that there is less juice to squeeze out of the Democratic orange because it’s already been squeezed. Democrats have already in many states been utterly ruthless.”

While Cooke said he would favor no gerrymandering, he thinks it’s probably not possible to avoid, given our current system. “But there are degrees of possible,” he said. “I don’t think that this is a question that should be delegated to the courts. It is an intrinsically political question and always will be.

“I do think that everyone involved here knows what they’re doing,” Cooke said, “and that’s using the state supermajority to increase the party’s fortunes in the state.

“It’s dispiriting to watch,” Cooke said. “It’s like watching the Democrats who spent years saying, ‘We need to pack the Supreme Court and abolish the filibuster’ then say, ‘Don’t you dare abolish the filibuster and pack the Supreme Court.’ It’s a good case. It’s a case I believe in. In fact, I want constitutional amendments to lock that in. But I don’t want to hear it from them.”

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