California Governor Gavin Newsom is doing something extraordinary for a Democratic politician: He is proposing structural changes to address the threat of Trumpism. In interviews and public statements in recent weeks, he has threatened to gerrymander a number of GOP seats out of their control in the 2026 midterms if Texas goes through with a plan to wipe out four or five Democratic-leaning seats in that state. Newsom has gone to great lengths to center himself in the Democratic Party’s post-