Deep made the mistake of dropping a sober and thoughtful analysis right in the middle of a day when we are all in mourning the loss of the world's greatest human. But you should still read it. I have my own thoughts in the 🧵:

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Unsurprising that the politics being produced by that outcome are causing so much distrust and unhappiness among everyone but a small group of insiders and big money.

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CD8, in its brief existence, has been a perpetual-motion cynicism-generation machine. For all the high-minded Amendment Y&Z talk, what the independent commission produced was: 7/7 incumbent seats protected and a new 8th District guaranteed to be a $30M/cycle gold mine for consultants and ad buyers.

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It's unusual for the public to get this kind of candor about something like this (it tends to get conditioned out of people involved in party politics pretty quickly). Setting the personal stuff aside, the documentation here of how many of Rutinel's positions changed, in such a short time, is wild.

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If someone isn’t running on making all of these crooked bozos pay, they shouldn’t even bother.

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