The Patriot Post® · GOP Can Win Big in Redistricting Wars

The Democrats and their mainstream media bootlickers keep talking about how last week’s 6-3 Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais has “gutted” the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

As Georgia Democrat Senator Raphael Warnock demagogues, the decision was “a massive and devastating blow” and “poured fuel on this redistricting arms race.”

This language is incendiary by design and meant to gin up the Democrats’ base. But it’s also inaccurate, so don’t let them get away with it.

As a general rule, the Constitution doesn’t allow us to discriminate based on race, and that’s precisely what the justices did away with in Callais. Thus, the Democrats can no longer distort the intent of the VRA to rig congressional districts based solely on race. As Justice Samuel Alito put it, “Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act … was designed to enforce the Constitution — not collide with it.”

The result of the ruling, then, will be an America unblemished by the grotesquely shaped congressional districts that have for decades been cynically carved out by Democrats, mostly in the South, so as to ensure Democrat-voting black majorities.

In fairness, both parties are guilty of gerrymandering to their advantage, but only the Democrats have done so by race. Columnist Josh Hammer calls this “a tedious and uninteresting observation” and instead cuts to the chase, which is the likelihood that Republicans will benefit greatly from redrawn congressional maps, including in Florida, where America’s best governor just signed a newly redistricted map into law. As Hammer writes:

[Florida] alone will likely net the GOP four additional seats. Second, Virginia’s controversial ballot referendum redistricting measure, which was just approved by Old Dominion voters by a much narrower margin than that by which Virginians swept Democrats back into power last November, is facing serious legal challenges. Most recently, on Wednesday, the Virginia Supreme Court left in place a lower-court order blocking the commonwealth’s certification of the referendum results. If Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s new map is tossed out, Democrats will likely be out an additional four seats.

Left-leaning FiveThirtyEight has done the math, and it sounds delicious. As self-styled “Freedom Maximalist” Ben Hart reports: “If both parties MAXXED OUT on gerrymandering, the House would end up with 262 Republicans to 173 Democrats. … That’s because Republicans control more state governments with multiple districts, and Democrat voters congregate in cities. … Time to play hardball. Let’s do it … NOW!”

As usual, the Democrats have no one to blame but themselves and their unappealing policies. One wonders, though: Will black Americans affix the blame where it belongs? Consider: Around 12% of Americans are black, a percentage that has remained relatively static for decades. Blacks, though, have been trampled underfoot by Hispanics in recent years, as the Hispanic population has grown by a stunning 34% since 2010, from around 51 million to around 68 million, accounting for some 20% of the total U.S. population.

For this development, blacks can thank the Democrats, who have long been their electoral masters — first, because the Democrat Party is the Party of Abortion, and black women account for nearly 30% of abortions each year; and second, because the Democrat Party is the Party of Open Borders, and Hispanics have benefited overwhelmingly from this, to the great economic and electoral detriment of blacks.

Talk about Jim Crow 2.0. Given the representational ruin that Democrat policies have visited upon them, it’s a wonder that blacks continue to give their votes to the Democrat Party. Thank you, sir. May I have another?

Last year, the mainstream media caterwauled about the Republicans having started this gerrymandering fight in Texas, and they’ve rooted for Democrats to do something about it ever since.

And they did — most notably in California, and recently in Virginia. But, again, that awful Virginia gerrymander is being held up in court and might never come to fruition.

As it turns out, though, the Democrats were largely tapped out in terms of their ability to rig the system. Republicans, though, have plenty of opportunity to rebalance the imbalance.

On that note, one state that seems to be dragging its feet is Georgia, whose Republican governor, Brian Kemp, claims that it’s too late to draw new districts for the 2026 midterm elections. “Voting is already underway for the 2026 elections,” Kemp said. “But it’s clear that Callais requires Georgia to adopt new electoral maps before the 2028 election cycle.”

This is disappointing, to say the least, especially given the Democrats’ electoral scumbaggery that took place in Atlanta’s Fulton County in 2020. And is it just me, or is it a bit soon for voting to already be underway for the November midterms?

Perhaps Kemp can be made to reconsider, especially given that other Republican-led states, like Alabama, are acting as if control of Congress depends on it.