If you ever need any more proof that the Democratic Party’s wailing about gerrymandering is just performative, you can take a look up to New York’s Democratic Party.

The grand “solution” Democrats have offered to gerrymandering are so-called “independent” and “bipartisan” commissions. Sometimes, those commissions are partisan shams, as California’s redistricting showed in 2021. But sometimes, those commissions return the fair, bipartisan maps they were tasked with creating. In those cases, Democratic legislatures fight tooth and nail to get them thrown out so they can gerrymander favorable ones.