The MO GOP needs to be more aggressive with finding a way to dismantle the 5th.
That article on Liberal, MO was a bit condescending (I took note that the city founder was not a “classic liberal”, but a left-wing, anti-Christian statist, one of those who perverted the term from its historic definition. However, at least to his credit, he came around to Christianity by the end of his life. Although one could still be a left-winger and Christian by William Jennings Bryan standards of the 1896-1912 period). They did have some senile whiner at the end of the article bitching about how the rural folks didn’t understand the cities. So why doesn’t he move back to one ?
Dismantling the MO-05 would be easy to do if the legislature is willing to have the MO-05 go from KC down to the Arkansas border (and then follow the border east for a couple more counties, maybe all the way to Taney) and have the MO-04 (Vicky Hartzler)take in just about all of Jackson County outside of KC. (The MO-06 (Sam Graves) should be kept out of Jackson County (it already has some marginal/Dem areas in Buchanan, Clay, etc. to the north of KC.) The Springfield-based MO-07 doesn’t need all of those GOP counties west and south of Greene and can go northeast until it takes in Democrat Boone County and still be comfortably GOP.