the Concavity Cabinet: ecological gerrymandering, named at the table

Sec. State supplies the phrase the theme keeps circling: "A kind of ecological gerrymandering?" The Reconfiguration is a redistricting done with poison instead of a pencil — a border redrawn to isolate the politically inconvenient and dump on them. That a cabinet secretary says it aloud, and is not contradicted, is the scene's admission that everyone at the table knows exactly what they are doing.