Maryland’s top Democrat just tanked his own party’s redistricting plan

Politico reports that Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson just blocked a redistricting effort that could’ve given Democrats another House seat. And sure, he wrote his three-page letter, full of big words and “reasonable” logic about why not to push forward. But this is exactly the problem — Democrats like Ferguson are more worried about looking smart and avoiding the “crazy” label than they are about saving democracy from the autocrats tearing it down. While Republicans rig the maps, Democrats like Ferguson sit back and polish their intellect. This isn’t intelligence — it’s cowardice dressed up as reason. And it’s the same brand of “smart” that helped put the village idiot in the White House instead of Kamala Harris.