Democrats Who Are Soft on Republicans Have Got to Go

Last month, Virginians voted to redistrict. They would take the old congressional map, split roughly between Republicans and Democrats, and replace it with a map that left the Republican Party with a single safe seat, covering the southwest of the state. This was part of a national response, by Democrats, to a Trump-led effort to protect the fragile Republican majority in the House through mid-decade redistricting and hyperpartisan gerrymanders.

It seemed, initially, that President Trump’s bid to gerrymander Congress was a bust. Republicans in Indiana refused to play ball, and Democrats in California retaliated in kind. After Virginia’s referendum approving the new maps, it........

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