I don’t know, a true conservative should be opposing attacks on the institution of our government. And any gerrymandering is an attack on that institution.

Which is exactly what Texas is doing, and Prop 50 is designed to be a reciprocal response; it’s not California just going, “well if you’re going to rig yours we’ll rig our’s better!”, it’s California nullifying the gerrymandering in Texas by matching it 1-to-1. If you’re anti-gerrymandering, Prop 50 is what actually discourages it, by making it pointless to do.

has he come out with any proper long term solutions? Seems to me, at a federal level we need to do things like lift the artificial cap on number of representatives, limit surface area to volume of districts, and limit concavity of district lines.

He generally doesn’t weigh in on what federal laws he thinks should change now, he stays pretty California-internal.