Share Source: Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP, Pool Partisan gerrymandering is bad. When Republicans do it. Leftists are constantly carping about the "brokenness" of institutions like the Supreme Court, the Senate and the Electoral College because they perceive said institutions to be obstacles to their arrogation of power. When Democrats controlled 60 Senate seats early in the Obama era, their hand-wringing about the "undemocratic" nature of the upper chamber was strangely muted. When they all assumed Hillary Clinton would win the presidency and replace Justice Scalia with a "progressive" jurist, there was no (ostensible, but not real) "legitimacy crisis" involving SCOTUS. Likewise, money in politics is a corrosive and corrupting evil, but not when it's left-wing money helping to elect the correct sorts of candidates.