The Patriot Post® · The Dems' Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Weekend

So, Democrats, did you have a good weekend? That’s today’s question, and it’s entirely rhetorical.

Democrats had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad weekend, and it wasn’t just because most of their mothers told them they’d never amount to anything. No, the Democrats had a woe-filled weekend because ever since January 20, 2025, the day of Donald Trump’s second inauguration, they’ve been looking ahead to November 3, 2026, as the day they must retake the House and thereby put an effective end to the second term of Le Bête Orange. The gavels, the legislative agenda, the committee control, the subpoena power, the impeachments — all of it hinges on retaking the House from the Republicans on the first Tuesday in November.

They won’t admit it, but they’ve been looking forward to that date with a single-mindedness that’d make Michael Myers blush.

And things were looking really good for the power-mad Dems until around two weeks ago, when funny things began to happen on the way to minority status for the Republicans and “Speaker of the House Hakeem Jeffries” for the Democrats.

First, the Dems got hit with a gerrymandering haymaker in the form of Louisiana v. Callais, in which a solid 6-3 Supreme Court rightly ruled that race-based gerrymandering was unconstitutional.

But if that ruling was a crackling right cross to the Democrats’ jaw, then Friday’s Virginia Supreme Court ruling, which struck down that state’s 10-to-1 Democrat gerrymander as unconstitutional, was a steel-tipped boot to the groin. Ya hate to see it, but as we reported on Friday, Governor Abigail Spanberger and her fellow disenfranchisers had spent some $5.2 million in state funds and more than $100 million from outside groups. As Bluto said in “Animal House,” “Seven years of college, down the drain.”

I love it when the Democrats get the schaden because that means we get the freude.

Interestingly, though, Virginia’s high court didn’t rule that the grotesquely disenfranchising gerrymander was unconstitutional. Rather, they ruled against the Democrats on a technicality — that the state legislature had failed to approve the constitutional amendment authorizing redistricting before the 2025 election.

In other words: Not so fast, Dear Abby. And if the Democrats think they can appeal this to the U.S. Supreme Court, they might want to think again. As the Manhattan Institute’s director of constitutional studies, Ilya Shapiro, succinctly opined, “Nothing to appeal — it’s an issue of state law.”

What is it about the Democrats’ inability or unwillingness to abide by federal and state constitutions?

Speaking of constitutions and such, constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley weighed in to chortle, “The Virginia Supreme Court just cooked ‘the Lobster,’ and with it, the ambitions of … Spanberger and the Democratic party. … All [that’s left] is a lingering sense of betrayal by GOP and independent voters who faced erasure from the gerrymander.”

Spanberger and her fellow usurpers “tossed aside any pretense of principle in a raw political gambit,” Turley later added. “The resulting faceplant is nothing short of legendary.”

Indeed, this is terrible stuff for the Democrats. But this is only the start of the redistricting blowback. So far, Texas and North Carolina have already enacted congressional maps favorable to Republicans, and Tennessee and Florida have created GOP-friendly maps that have been enacted but are pending due to legal challenges from the Democrats. Further, Louisiana is expected to create its own new GOP-friendly map, and GOP-controlled Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina should be right behind.

To turn John Lennon’s commie anthem on its head: Imagine there’s no James Clyburn. It’s easy if you try.

As for the Big Picture: If we can declare victory over Iran and bring that excursion to a successful conclusion; if we can get gas prices back down; if we can boot Jerome Powell and get growth-friendly Kevin Warsh ensconced as our nation’s new Fed chair; if we can seize upon the Democrats’ generally deep unpopularity — if we can accomplish all these things, then the prospects for Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans will begin to look pretty darn good as we head into fall.

If. If, if, if.