On Friday’s All Things Considered, NPR aired a seven-minute interview lamenting Republican redistricting with a man who’s rarely considered. They interviewed Rep. Steve Cohen, Democrat of Memphis, who is a white man who’s long represented a majority-black district. The online headline had drama: “Tennessee Democrat speaks about his erased district.” Anchor Ailsa Chang apologized in this question: AILSA CHANG: Let me ask you -- and forgive me for pointing out the obvious. You are a white politician who has been representing this majority-black district. What do you think is the significance of Tennessee losing its only majority-black district? Rep. STEVE COHEN: Well, it's going to lessen African Americans' interest in the election process when they know that their decision in a primary is going to be for a candidate who probably doesn't have much of a chance to win. NPR didn’t point out Cohen’s representation undercuts the leftist argument that black voting rights don’t have meaning if they don’t have black representation. Chang did ask about the tit-for-tat wars: CHANG: What do you say to people watching all of this, who are like, hey, two wrongs, don't make it right, no matter who's doing it? None of this tit for tat between the two sides is good for democracy in general. How do you respond? COHEN: Yeah, It's not good for democracy. Donald Trump started this in Texas when he called the Texas governor and asked him to get him four or five new congressmen. [This overlooks that New York did it under Biden, before Trump.] CHANG: Right, and Democrats are punching back. So now there's a tit for tat. What do you think of that? COHEN: If we don't do it and Gavin Newsom didn't do it, we'd be dead. We would not be - have a chance at having the majority in the House of Representatives and the authoritarian leader who started this unprecedented action by going to Texas - just like he went to Georgia and said, find me 11,000 votes - he would be a president without any oversight. That's not right. Cohen went on to denounce Trump as “basically a gangster” and added: “if the Democrats didn't respond, they would continue to have the House and have it forever. And that's just not right. We'll have authoritarianism. We'll have Orbán. He's close to Orbán already.” Chang didn’t take exception, just underlined he was talking about Hungarian president Viktor Orban, who just lost a re-election bid.