Last month, we wrote about Midwestern Republican lawmakers — in Ohio and especially Indiana — defying pressure from the Trump administration to engage in mid-decade redistricting for partisan benefit. This was an off-ramp from spiraling redistricting wars, which Democrats say the GOP instigated with a redraw in Texas. 

What they ignore in this “they started it” finger-pointing storyline is the serious injustice of the Census Bureau’s dramatic counting errors in the 2020 census, which wrongly gifted blue states at least half a dozen congressional seats and presidential electoral votes, according to experts. These faulty maps have tainted multiple election cycles, despite the agency admitting to miscounts in 14 states, which overwhelmingly benefited Democrats. Texas’s action could reasonably be defended as a corrective measure to partially mitigate this democracy-undermining problem.

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Liberals don’t care about a major error that unjustly benefited their party, of course, so they’ve framed Texas Republicans as the aggressors in the resulting skirmish. California changed its constitution via referendum, undoing a fairly recent change that took redistricting out of the hands of politicians. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and company spent heavily to push through a misleadingly worded ballot measure, selling it as an answer to a Trump-backed power grab pushed by the GOP. Setting aside all the substantive problems with their........

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