Let Your Rage Fuel You
Here are four words I never thought I’d utter: Abigail Spanberger was right.
During the campaign she urged Virginia to be fueled by rage. Well, after watching the patently illegal shenanigans by the “10 effing 1” Democrat crowd I’m feeling the rage and it’s fueling my desire to see Southern states go scorched earth on congressional redistricting.
After all, the South just got the green light.
Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that segregating voters based on race was unconstitutional, which means that Southern states that have been hamstrung by the archaic Voting Rights Act can finally get rid of insanely shaped districts that were created simply to lump blacks together.
The Federalist reported, “The U.S. Supreme Court released a bombshell ruling on Wednesday significantly curtailing states’ use of race in the redistricting process.
“Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 … was designed to enforce the Constitution — not collide with it. Unfortunately, lower courts have sometimes applied this Court’s §2 precedents in a way that forces States to engage in the very race-based discrimination that the Constitution forbids,” Associate Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority (6-3).
The court held that Louisiana’s black majority districts were the result of illegal racial gerrymandering. Now the state legislature can redraw the maps, which will likely result in two more Republican districts.
We’re long past the time when it was assumed that a black candidate couldn’t win in a majority white district. If I’m not mistaken, a black president was elected and re-elected for a second term in a majority white country.
The most delicious reaction to the Supreme Court decision came from a furious Barack Obama. Remember how hard he campaigned for the Virginia gerrymander? How little he cared for the poor whites in rural areas who were being disenfranchised? His hypocrisy knows no bounds.
The Supreme Court decided the case on a snake-shaped Louisiana district. Look for Louisiana to quickly redistrict it into something resembling a normal, contiguous congressional district. Mississippi’s Gov. Tate Reeves announced last week that he was going to urge the legislature in Jackson to redistrict as well. And yesterday Florida’s House and Senate voted overwhelmingly to redraw its districts, presumably wiping out most Democrat seats. The bill is on the governor’s desk awaiting his signature.
Good.
If, as Hakeem Jeffries says, we really are engaged in a political war, let’s go.
Oh, and while we’re at it, illegals must be excluded from the next census. Without those millions of aliens, several blue states - California and New York, for instance - will lose seats.
Turns out, rage can be useful.
