Hoosiers Hate Cheaters, and Other Reasons a Trump Revenge Campaign Might Fail

Ms. Cottle writes about national politics for Opinion.

There was a while late last year when the Republican lawmakers in Indiana who were resisting President Trump’s push to redraw the state’s congressional map lived with the pervasive risk of physical violence. “We had firebomb threats,” State Senator Jim Buck told me in a recent interview. “All kinds of threats!”

Several anti-redistricting Republicans were swatted — armed police swarmed their homes in response to fraudulent emergency calls. “I had to have a conversation with my kids about what happens if police kick down our door and why that’s........

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