According to one conservative, should Texas go ahead with gerrymandering the state to increase the number of GOP-held seats in the House of Representatives, that will be equivalent to the “nuclear option” that could change the political landscape forever –– and not in a good way.

Speaking with MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, conservative Charlie Sykes equated the face-off between Republicans and Democrats to the cold war and a possible “nuclear winter.”

“I mean, look at the vortex of escalation that we’re in right now,” he began. “The whole point of ‘Mutual Assured Destruction’ (MAD) was to deter extreme measures. But what happens if it doesn’t deter, you know, then you get the nuclear option, then you get the destruction.”

“Democrats, I think, have come to a consensus very, very quickly that they are not simply going to stand aside and wring their hands and say ‘You know, we’re going to, you know, take the moral high ground’ because quite frankly the alternative is electoral annihilation.”

“When you have someone like Donald Trump asking that all the norms be trashed when asking that you know, one rule after another be thrown away, so sooner or later you get this nuclear option,” he pointed out. “But what comes after the nuclear option? You know: nuclear winter.”

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