He's rationalized his retreat in increments, from his warning that a court -
run redrawing
of the lines would
result in «chaos,» to the subjective conditions he laid out for an
acceptable gerrymander, to his uncharacteristic claim
of powerlessness, to his criticism
of an independent judge's congressional map, to his lightly supported characterization
of the latest gerrymandered legislative draft - map as «progress» from the previous gerrymandered version.
The
acceptable scientific use
of models is to first initialize to current conditions,
run the model thousands
of times and present the
results as a range
of probable outcomes within the limits
of irreducible imprecision that is the divergent solution space.