Democrats Resort to Tired Jim Crow Rhetoric After Court Rulings Enshrining Colorblind Districting, Rule of Law

The Supreme Court of Virginia has rejected the reduction of the likely congressional representation for the 47 percent of Virginians who voted Republican in the 2024 Congressional election to one out of 11 congressmen as gimcrack partisan election-stuffing. The United States Supreme Court has banned the deliberate creation of racial-majority congressional districts. Having gerrymandered many of their more reliable states, the Democrats reacted like wounded animals when the Trump Republicans began doing the same in some of the states where Republicans traditionally predominate. Once again, the tired, gasping voices of Senator Chuck Schumer, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, and President Obama reverted to the ritualistic denunciations of Jim Crow, the same encomium that they accord the Republicans’ accommodation of the wishes of 80 percent of the population that wanted to avoid voter fraud by requiring authentic identification for federal voters.It was Mr. Obama who more or less subtly made racism the keystone of every aspect of American politics. He made it legitimate to view almost every public policy question and position through a racial lens. It was a terribly divisive and destructive technique: the classic recourse to purport to counter an evil by endlessly alleging it. As everyone knows, the compromise by which slavery was accepted in the Constitution of the United States was a high price to pay for the creation of the American Union, and the ultimate decision of most of the Southern states to attempt to secede from the Union because the majority of states elected a president who was prepared to tolerate slavery where it existed, and financially to assist slaveholders in emancipating their slaves, but restrict the expansion of slavery into states where there was no sociological or economic reason for it. Ultimately the slaveholding states sought to secede from the Union in order to retain the right for slavery to expand to places like Kansas and Nebraska, where there was no need or desire for it.It was as, Lincoln said, an evil institution and he ultimately determined that he would remove it, even if as he famously said “every drop of blood drawn by the lash shall be repaid by a drop of blood drawn by the sword.” Slavery ended, but the Southern whites prevented the African-Americans from voting and so controlled more congressional seats and electoral votes than before the Civil War. Since the South was a one-party state that did not elect Republicans for nearly a century, seniority conferred upon Southern congressional leaders a greater power in the federal government than the south had exercised since the days of the founding presidents from Virginia.No society in history has gone to the lengths that the United States has to help raise up a formerly forcibly servile minority to the socioeconomic and political status of equality with the descendants of their former owners. America is rightfully self-critical of the tenacity of slavery and of segregation, but it fails to give itself the credit that it has earned through 60 years of often severe abrasions to the point that the United States is a society, which has been overwhelmingly purged of racial bigotry and prejudice. The attempt to portray President Trump as a racist, which was a staple of the Democrats’ defamation of him in his first term, remains an allegation of the most fanatical Trump-haters, including the dismissed television commentator Don Lemon and even Secretary Hillary Clinton with her malicious nonsense about Nazis, Hitler, and the “deplorables.” Yet it has failed because it was a lie. Mr. Trump is a racial egalitarian, much more demonstrably than is Mr. Obama. The companion Democratic ambition to pack the House of Representatives in a way that destroys any concept of the states being represented at Washington in the way that reflects the political leanings of their populations has also failed. The Democrats’ clear insinuation that non-whites were insufficiently intelligent to bring identification with them to their voting places fits in perfectly with Governor Gavin Newsom’s explanation to an African-American audience recently that because he has a reading disability, he “cannot read a speech.” Mr. Newsom added that “I’m just trying to impress upon you: I’m like you. I’m no better than you. You know, I’m a 960 SAT guy.”What Mr. Trump’s opponents were attempting to build up as a nasty and discreditable dispute between the president and Pope Leo XIV arose from the pope’s uncalled-for criticism of American conduct in the Iran War while withholding any criticism of Iran. He should not have implied any such position, and the president should not have replied as snappishly as he did. Secretary of State Marco Rubio appears to have satisfactorily resolved this transitory incident and restored the natural good relations between the American administration and the Holy See.The Democrats’ cheerful pretense to confidence that they will seize control of the Congress in November and torment Mr. Trump in his last two years in the White House is fading. Mr Trump is making it much more difficult for his opponents to portray him as a trigger-happy madman, after a reasonably observed cease-fire of a month, and even the Iranians claim only one fatality, civilian or military, for every seven American and Israeli airstrikes. In delaying the forcible clearance of the Strait of Hormuz, which the United States Navy could execute, Mr. Trump has caused his critics to waffle back and forth between their charges that he is a warmonger and a coward who “always chickens out.” Neither is accurate.

Democrats Resort to Tired Jim Crow Rhetoric After Court Rulings Enshrining Colorblind Districting, Rule of Law

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