The New York Times published an opinion piece arguing Democrats need to remove leadership figures who compromise with Republicans, framed around recent redistricting losses in Virginia and other states where GOP advantages have widened. The underlying facts are solid — Virginia's Supreme Court did strike down the Democratic redistricting map on May 8, and Republicans have gained real structural advantages in redistricting across multiple states following Supreme Court voting-rights decisions. The framing issue: the piece lumps together distinct problems (Virginia's map loss, national redistricting trends, internal party discipline) as if they're all symptoms of one solution (removing 'soft' Democrats), when these are actually separate challenges requiring different responses. Harris and other Democratic leaders have already pushed back hard against the Virginia ruling — this isn't a case of Democratic passivity.