Within a certain range of public sentiment. 1/

When public opinion gets sufficiently out-of-whack relative to the assumptions made by the gerrymanderers, when “efficiently” distributed reliable partisans start to turn less than reliable, it’s like a financial crisis. Safe seats turn speculative, everything becomes fluid. 2/

The flow of control is from the public to Congress to outcome. They’ve rigged things so the public needs to be pushed unfairly to extremes before Congress’ insulation is overcome. But the public might be pushed by events well beyond those extremes. /fin