I feel like you’re ascribing so much more intelligence and thoughtfulness to Trump’s reasoning than has been consistently demonstrated. I fully believe that his entire reasoning is that Greenland is really big on most map projections and relatively easy to take by force (whether by bullying Denmark into ceding it or literally invading it militarily).

He wants to leave his mark by doing something very few Presidents have done, especially in the modern era. Same reason he created the Space Force or the White House ballroom - it’s a vanity project by a malignant narcissist who wants to leave a legacy and doesn’t care about the cost, or even the actual benefits.

Do we want the informed consumers making rational decisions kind of capitalism, or the kind where corporations exploit people who are helpless to whatever a lie they want to tell about the true cost of our decisions? Guess we have the answer.

It’s literally the title of the linked article?

It started in 1812. Although the Democratic-Republican party did evolve into the current Democratic party over the course of two centuries, it’s hardly fair to call them the same party. That’s eight generations between then and now and the political landscape has changed dramatically.

As for the “both sides do it” whataboutism, like so many “both sides” issues the current Republican Party benefits far more from gerrymandering than the current Democratic Party, and this is before this especially egregious Texas mid-census redistricting.