Democrats are concerned about the Trump administration’s change to the Census, the lack of critiques about from the right about how the Republican-controlled government is performing and the impact of gerrymandering. A roundup of editorials Wednesday takes a look at these issues.

Why Are There No Good Conservative Critiques of Trump’s Unified Government?

From Medium: "The Right seems far more focused on campus hecklers or teenagers demanding not to be shot rather than on evaluating their own exercise of political power."

The Weaponized Census

From The Atlantic: “Unauthorized immigrants—and even authorized immigrants with undocumented family members—might have good reason to avoid taking this Census or to respond falsely, both of which would severely hamper the quality of data and make the DOJ’s claims moot.”

From The New Republic: “Thanks to a surge in partisan gerrymandering over the past decade, American politicians increasingly choose their own voters, not the other way around.”

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