After flooding the country with millions of current and future Democratic voters and attempting to derail President Trump’s election campaign with just shy of 100 criminal charges, Democrats have finally decided to stop playing nice. Indeed, some in the party’s base are suggesting it might even be time to start breaking the rules. Furious at what they see as the impotence and unwarranted high-mindedness of their leaders against a Republican Party that is no longer accepting defeat as its pre-ordained fate, these Democrats are calling for an escalation of the fight against Trump and his allies.

Liberals are convinced, for example, that former Attorney General Merrick Garland, the man who helped oversee the unprecedented lawfare against Trump in 2024, is a quisling for his failure to “lock him up” before voters cast their ballots in the fall. It appears to be the sincere belief of many MSNBC watchers that Garland should have placed Trump in handcuffs and leg irons on national TV, to save “our democracy.”

As Texas Republicans now proceed with President Trump’s demands to gerrymander up to five GOP seats, the Democrats are threatening to do the same in states they control. The mass media are sympathetic to the Democrats, painting them as entirely justified in their righteous anger at the right’s “brazen” power grab.

Gerrymandering is one of those very basic concepts that people learn about in 10^th grade social studies. It is, perhaps, a bit unsavory but it’s perfectly legal and the Supreme Court has already ruled that the judiciary cannot police it. Both parties do it, but it is something you only hear about in the Democrat-run media when Republicans do it.

In contrast, the Democrat attempt to invite an entirely new electorate of people “seeking a better life” across our borders to the benefit of Democrats was something we were told was a Republican conspiracy theory. Moreover, this action is something that it is very difficult for Democratic opponents to reverse. This assault on our sovereignty and our laws is, Democrats say, perfectly natural, indeed, part of the very fabric of who we are as a “nation of immigrants.”

While Republicans try to squeeze out a few seats here and there, Democrats have been at work  gerrymandering the whole country for at least a generation. Despite their historically low approval ratings, Democrats are reasserting the need for their unpopular mass immigration policy and stirring up insurrectionary violence against ICE because immigration is their battering ram. Besides teeing up future voters, illegal immigration also inflates the census in Democratic-run states like New York and California, which have been hemorrhaging their native populations because of unaffordability, high crime, high taxes, woke ideology, and overregulation.

California has the largest congressional delegation in the country with 52 seats. Within our lifetimes, the state was sending Republicans to the White House, but thanks largely to open borders it has no prospect of ever becoming a real democracy again, no matter how catastrophically it is run and no matter how many flee for greener pastures. California elections are the butt of jokes and openly invite fraud.

Because irony will never die, Democrats in Texas have attempted to grind legislative business to a halt and deny Republicans their “power grab” by fleeing to Illinois—a notorious “sanctuary” for rank partisan corruption going back decades. Illinois’ own gerrymander is arguably the most egregious in the whole nation—at least, if not more audacious than Texas’ current effort. Democrats in Illinois hold 14 out of the state’s 17 districts despite winning the House races by less than six points in November, as Trump’s red wave swept the country.

The Republican voters in Illinois have been packed into just three districts where whites comprise over 80 percent of the population, with the rest sprinkled in districts controlled by the Democrat machine. A case could probably be made that Illinois whites are victims under the Voting Rights Act, which is a law that nominally protects “civil rights” for everyone but which in practice has conferred an institutional advantage to Democrats and their minority base. Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker has, rather absurdly, threatened to redistrict to make the state’s map even more favorable to Democrats. This is a feat akin to bending the laws of physics—if anyone can pull that off, it is Pritzer, who has the body mass of a small planet.

The chest-beating about gerrymandering from Democrats like Pritzker and California’s Governor Gavin Newsom is performative. It’s done by governors who hold power without real elections and who are auditioning for the White House. Their plan for counteracting the GOP is simply to continue flooding the country with foreigners, as they did under Biden, who oversaw the largest voter registration drive in U.S. history. Democrats hope, not without reason, that Trump’s coalition will not outlast him and that demographics will eventually determine the nation’s destiny. If no one stops them, it likely will be as it already is in California, where they have very little need for Chicago-style chutzpah to get their way. Invigorated by Trump’s example, Republicans in Texas and elsewhere should not hesitate to be “brazen” by grabbing an advantage where they can.

https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/democrats-have-been-gerrymandering-the-whole-country