MONOKULTUR

“You are all individuals!” råber en frustreret Bryan the American Constitution fra sit vindue, til hvilket Demokraterne svarer “Blacks are not!”. Demokraterne er selvfølgelig nedsmeltet og hentet deres argumentation fra Helvedes Omvendtslev, hvor raceopdeling af vælgerne bliver et udtryk for antiracisme. De farveblinde dommere og Republikanere beskyldes for at ville genindføre Jim Crow love, der, som bekendt, gik ud på at holde racerne adskilt. Demokraterne har mistet den sidste del af deres Peculiar Institution, nemlig segregering gennem valgdistrikter.

Demokraterne har i flere stater ‘gerrymandered’, altså inddelt valgkredse, hvor også folks hudfarve indgår. Ideen er selvfølgelig, at siden de fleste sorte stemmer på Demokraterne, så kan man ud fra et hensyn til lige eller fair repræsentation, bedre fordele denne stemme-blok og således få endnu flere Demokratiske repræsentanter i Kongressen. Problemet er selvfølgelig at alle amerikanere er lige for loven, der er farveblind. Du bliver repræsenteret gennem politisk affiliation, ikke fordi din oldemor har bollet med en neger. Det har den amerikanske Højesteret slået fast og på den baggrund har Virginias Højesteret underkendt den Demokratisk dominerede stats seneste forsøg på at begrænse Republikanernes indflydelse.

“We haven’t seen this kind of power struggle since Thomas Jefferson destroyed th Federalist Party” fortalte Newt Gingrich på Fox News.

The word ‘gerrymander’ comes from the last stage of that fight when Eldridge Gerry drew a map in Massachusetts to try to preserve the Federalists. And somebody said that district looks like a salamander. And somebody else said ‘oh no, that’s a Gerrymander’.

That is the only other time in American history, that we see the mobilisation of everything. California is involved, Democrats didn’t mind when California whipped out Republican seats, they loved Virginia whipping out Republican seats. All of a sudden, the institutional tide has turned. This is why president Trump is such a historical figure

He is the first person to really take the establishment head on and to grind at them, and grind at them, and grind at them. And the result is that they are breaking apart. They are breaking apart at the universities, they are breaking apart on terms of the maps…

The key question the court has answered is – it’s been coming now for 30 years – is; can you in fact use race as a factor. Well, it’s very clear that the establishment used race in order to create districts that African Americans would win in. And they used race as an admission to Harward etc. All of that is gradually receding and people said; wait a second, you got to compete. You know, we have African Americans who win i white districts. 

We are not in the 1940ies

Newt er optimist på sit partis vegne og spår “a truly historic election”  hvor Republikanerne står til at “pick up a substantial number of seats in the House and several seats in the Senate” (sagt i et andet indslag), trods det fænomen, at den siddende præsident plejer at få Kongressen mod sig ved midtvejsvalget. Demokraterne virker i hvert fald desperate. Hvor desperate kunne man få en anelse om i New York Times der i artiklen “A Private Call Reveals Democrats’ Desperation Over Tossing of Map” fortalte en eksklusiv historie. 

During a private discussion on Saturday that included Democratic House members from Virginia and Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, the lawmakers vented anger at their defeat at the Virginia Supreme Court, spoke about a collective determination to flip two or three Republican-held seats under the existing map and discussed a bank-shot proposal to redraw the congressional lines anyway, according to three people who participated in the call and two others who were briefed on it.

They did not land on a specific course forward, and Mr. Jeffries and the other members of Congress agreed to consult with their lawyers about the most prudent way to proceed, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private talk.

The conversation reflected the desperation and fury that have gripped the party after the state Supreme Court struck down a favorable map that had been ratified by voters. The most dramatic idea they discussed — which would involve an unusual gambit to replace the entire state Supreme Court, with a goal of reinstating their gerrymandered map — drew mixed reactions on the call, said the people, and it was not clear that it would even be viable, or palatable to Gov. Abigail Spanberger and Democrats in the Virginia General Assembly. 

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One key to the plan would be having Democrats in Richmond lower the mandatory retirement age for state Supreme Court justices, an idea that began circulating among state lawmakers and members of Congress after a column proposing a version of the idea was published on Friday night in The Downballot, a progressive newsletter.

Ms. Spanberger would have to sign off on any legislation that lowered the judicial retirement age. She has not been briefed on the proposal, the people involved in the discussion or briefed on it said. Her spokeswoman, Libby Wiet, declined to comment.

The first step in the process, as discussed on the delegation’s call, would be to invoke a January ruling by a circuit court judge in Tazewell County, Va., that said the 2026 constitutional amendment effort to redraw the maps was invalid because county officials did not post notice of it at courthouses and other public locations three months before a general election.

Democrats would aim to use that ruling to seek to invalidate the earlier constitutional amendment that created the state’s independent redistricting commission by arguing that courthouses across the state did not post notice of it at the time. That would give the legislature the authority to enact a map of its choosing.

Ensuring the plan proceeds would involve the General Assembly, which is controlled by Democrats, lowering the mandatory retirement age for Virginia’s Supreme Court from 75 to 54, the age of the youngest current justice, or less. Virginia judges are appointed by the General Assembly, where Democrats hold majorities in both chambers and could then fill vacancies on the court with sympathetic Democratic lawyers.

Mandatory retirement ages are in place for judges in 32 states and Washington, D.C., according to a 2015 law review article from the Duke University Law School. The article said the most common retirement age set by states is 70.

Dr. Steve Turley, ikke at forveksle med professor Jonathan Turley fortæller at mange Demokrater skifter deres partibog ud med en Republikansk. Det er de skøre kugler, der lufter deres antisemitisme, der blandt andre tvinger Alan Dershowitz til at bruge sin hjerne. Forholdet er 4-1 i Republikanernes favør. Vælgerregistreringer er langt mere sigende for et valgresultat end meningsmålinger.

At alle ser det som at Demokraterne er partiet, ikke for ‘liberals’ men for skøre standpunkter og mennesker er noget som Trump selv har fremmet, som jeg har skrevet om for på gamle Monokultur. Hans insisteren på at tage verbale slagsmål med folk som Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, har fremmet hendes status internt i partiet og eleveret hendes magt og indflydelse. Fordi fjenden i deres tænkning altid står til højre, har traditionelle Demokrater helt op i toppen af partiet, som den magtfulde tidligere Kongres Forkvinde Nancy Pelosi og deres tidligere senats formand Chuck Schumer ilet til hendes forsvar og således hægtet partiet på hendes og ligesindedes radikale vogn.

“The court just cooked the party’s infamous lobster, a district over 100 miles long that was designed to help devour the GOP’s slender majority in the House of Representatives” skrev Jonathan Turley i New York Post

When Democrats declared a gerrymandering war, some of us warned that the party, with its already heavily gerrymandered blue states, had far more to lose than the GOP did.

It was particularly comical when Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey pledged to join the redistricting fray, even though her state is so badly gerrymandered that it’s elected zero Republicans to the House since the 1990s.

Virginia, a state long opposed to gerrymandering, has been considered the fairest state in the country, with a distribution of congressional seats that closely matches its partisan divide.

Once Spanberger sought to eradicate Republican representation, total war broke out — and now red states like Florida and Tennessee have moved forward with their own redistricting.

On top of the fact that GOP states have more room for partisan gerrymandering, the Virginia Supreme Court decision comes on the heels of the US Supreme Court’s ban on racial gerrymandering.

That means a dozen or more Democratic districts could now be deemed unconstitutional — and Louisiana and Mississippi are moving to redistrict in line with the Supreme Court’s decision.

The result could be a dramatic shift in districts favoring the GOP.

Den næste folketælling i 2030 vil rette op på nogle mangler, som har favoriseret Demokraterne og som flere flytter fra blå stater til de økonomisk fremgangsrige røde stater er panikken i Washington ved at sætte ind for alvor “Top priority: packing the Supreme Court as soon as they retake power”. Som Turley citerer den tidligere rådgiver for Bill Clinton James Carville: “F–k it . . . Just do it.”