By M Dowling
In an opinion piece for the New York Times, Jamelle Bouie, who thinks it’s 1964, wrote about Louisiana v. Callais, which eliminated anti-white racism from redistricting. He says out loud what we know is true. Democrats think they must have one-party rule in perpetuity. Emphasis added.
Democrats must do everything they can to win power, including retaliatory gerrymandering, so that they can actually build a more equitable political system and trim the authority of institutions, like the Supreme Court, that stand in the way of greater democratization.
Fighting in the system as it exists also means that, if they manage to win majorities in the House and, especially, the Senate, Democrats must abolish both the filibuster in the Senate and any other procedural obstacle to a more majoritarian Congress.
Ultimately, political reform will take the shape of a partisan project—a specific, party-driven gambit and not a broad bipartisan compromise. This could be the passage of a stronger, revitalized Voting Rights Act along with a national ban on partisan gerrymandering and mid-decade redistricting—in other words, some combination of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the stillborn For the People Act—or it could be something more radical, like expanding the size of the House (which has been capped at 435 members for nearly a century), legalizing electoral fusion, or moving the country toward proportional representation.
The Supreme Court ruling seeks only fair representation under the Constitution. Race is not a basis for representation. Bouie ignores the fact that blue states have redistricted Republicans out of numerous states, including New York, Illinois, California, and all of New England. The reason he ignores the facts is that Democrats want one-party rule in every state. Currently, Democrats are sending out flyers demanding an end to the Electoral College, which gives smaller states a voice.
Speaker Johnson’s Warning
“The way I describe it in summary is that there are little ‘mini Mamdanis’ popping up all around the country, okay? And they’re openly avowing socialist Marxist ideology. This is something that we have never seen before in American history. The Tea Party reset in the Republican Party was about fiscal responsibility. This is about moving away from a constitutional republic to a communist, utopian ideology. And that’s a dangerous thing for the future of the country. The problem we have is the insurgent left; the far left has all the energy, excitement, and money in the Democratic Party. This is not our father’s Democratic Party anymore. They’re going far, far left, and no one’s there to stop it. And that’s a dangerous thing.”