The Texas Legislature Bowed to Trump. It Screwed Him in the Process. 

Back in August, state Representative Mitch Little, Republican of Lewisville, had an admirably masculine sound bite for CNN’s Brianna Keilar. The TV anchor had asked Little why Texas Republicans were trying to redraw the state’s congressional map in the middle of the decade to deliver the president more seats in the upcoming midterm. “Because we can,” Little said. “We have the votes.”Little, to his credit, and unlike many of his colleagues, didn’t hide the ball. He explained to Keilar that his party wanted a handful of congressional districts it currently couldn’t win. This had a whiff of Thucydides about it—“the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”—and apart from the general preference Panera Bread–frequenting state lawmakers have for a little…

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