Yes. They should. That is what a principled exercise of power might look like.

I don’t think there is a single silver lining here and they think we are dumb dupes who stopped paying attention after the newsmedia moves on from their theater

I am not quite that cynical, yet. There's a real cost in the theater. Texas imposes fines upon them for missing sessions, and Abbott will call those every day. It's about $400k/person to stick it out all the way to the end. Their audience was the blue states, not Texas.

So, like, the party has a choice to make. Do they spend 3.2 million dollars and bring down criminal charges on their state reps, who can't go home or visit any state that extradites to Texas, or do they cut it short? If the reciprocal gerrymandering comes through, I'll only be mildly disappointed.

ya and they are making a bad one. What’s the point of any of this theatre if they give it up immediately without any leverage

We'll find out if it yielded anything at all after the Nov 4 special election in California, and, I guess, after mid-terms next year. If CA Dems can't get the redistricting passed, it was all an expensive waste of time and energy.

Soo why did they need to do it then? The California special election is actually unrelated and just another potential form of leverage so yea it was an expensive waste of time and energy already