In Face of Redistricting Failure, Dems Fall Back on Strategy of Stoking Hatred of Trump
“blaming President Donald Trump, and hoping it will spur voters to turn out for them in the midterms”
After watching their Virginia redistricting dreams go up in smoke, Democrats are falling back on the familiar strategy of stoking hatred of President Trump. This is their comfort zone. This is also where they connect most effectively with the party’s Trump-deranged base.
It’s hilarious that Politico calls this a ‘new’ message:
As Republicans carve up Black districts, Democrats pivot to a new midterm message
Democrats are changing their redistricting strategy — again.
Just two weeks after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries promised to invoke “maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time,” his side has been forced to shift drastically into a defensive posture thanks to a pair of court rulings that moved the House map toward the GOP.
Now, with little to no chances left to redistrict ahead of November to counter GOP gains of 10 favorable House seats or more, Democrats are stuck doing something they know all too well: blaming President Donald Trump, and hoping it will spur voters to turn out for them in the midterms.
In statements and interviews since Virginia’s Supreme Court struck down state Democrats’ new congressional map and the high court narrowed the Voting Rights Act, the party is arguing that Republicans’ aggressive moves to dismantle Black- and Hispanic-majority districts in the South will outrage voters of color and spur them to the polls in record numbers.
“Given the highly unfavorable political environment confronting House Republicans, the extremists will not meaningfully benefit from their scandalous gerrymandering scheme,” Jeffries said in a Monday “Dear Colleague” letter. “Quite the opposite. Democratic enthusiasm and resolve have grown more intense.”
I think this is one of the biggest problems the Democrats face heading into the midterms. They have nothing new to offer. They have not paused for one minute since the 2024 election to regroup and offer the country a new vision of anything. They hated Trump then; they hate Trump now. What is new about any of this?
Of course, history favors the party that is out of power in midterm elections, but nothing is set in stone.
The Democrats have legitimate reasons to be nervous.
From CNBC:
Series of court decisions weaken Democrats’ odds of winning the House
Two court rulings in the past two weeks have hit the chances that Democrats flip control of the House in November, according to traders on prediction markets platform Kalshi.
Odds that the party wins control of the lower chamber have fallen to 75% from 85.3% on April 28.
On April 29, the Supreme Court ruled in Louisiana v. Callais that a majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana was invalid, limiting how much race can be considered when drawing congressional maps and weakening part of the Voting Rights Act.
That district, like many of the other majority-black congressional districts across the South, is represented by a Democrat. Louisiana is moving to redraw its maps in a move that will likely see one less Democratic member of Congress sent from the state.
Other states have rushed to redraw their maps in reaction to the decision too. Tennessee last week approved a map to alter the boundaries of a majority-Black district in Memphis, endangering the re-election of Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen. Alabama and South Carolina are also considering redrawing their maps, potentially endangering up to three Democratic incumbents.
Redistricting aside, the main issue is what Democrats are offering to the people of America, and there is nothing new.
If Democrats retake control of the House, we are likely to see a repeat performance of what they did in Trump’s first term. A trauma they still have not gotten over.
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Democrats rarely learn anything. They dare not learn. Hard to keep a revolution/resistance going when your members have ‘learned’.
If Spartacus is Dollar store Obama, then it figured Hakeem is TEMU Obama…
The Tennessee “black” district will still be “black”, it just won’t be represented by a white Democrat, but a Black Republican, should the voters so choose.
No, the district will no longer be black. It’s about the district, not the representative. The fact that Cohen is white is irrelevant; what’s relevant is that the black voters overwhelmingly support him, but no one else does.
Normally a Republican legislature, seeing an area with a lot of Democrat voters, would naturally have split them up so they couldn’t elect a Democrat. That’s what they did to all the white Democrat voters in the state. But in this case, because the Democrat voters in question happen to be black, the courts ordered the legislature to deliberately create a district in which those voters would be a majority and could elect a Democrat.
Now SCOTUS has decided that all the courts (including itself 3 years ago) were wrong, and the VRA doesn’t and never did require the deliberate creation of districts with black majorities whenever possible, the legislature has done what it would have done in the first place had it been allowed, and have treated those black Democrats exactly the same way they have always treated white Democrats. It has split them up so they can’t elect anyone; they can vote, but their votes won’t have any effect because they’re a minority in their district. Not because they’re black, which would be illegal, but because they’re Democrats, which is legal. Maybe unethical, but nonetheless a long-standing American tradition that the courts have refused to interfere with, and that Democrats have practiced for well over a century whenever they could.
“…the legislature has done what it would have done in the first place had it been allowed, and have treated those black Democrats exactly the same way they have always treated white Democrats…”
“When you’ve spent your entire life entitled, equality will feel like discrimination.”
Thomas Sowell
“Now SCOTUS has decided that all the courts (including itself 3 years ago) were wrong”
And this is why, compared to even 20 years ago, my respect for “human” law has practically vanished.
Yet again, you are wrong. Justin Pearson, 31, outraised 10-term Rep. Steve Cohen more than 2-to-1, pulling in $732K in his first months — more than all Cohen’s past challengers combined over 16 years. Mark these words: A Black conservative Republican winning the seat will be a watershed moment in our current un-gerrymandering history.
Fall back? I think you meant ‘dialing up strategy of…’
No, they were trying something new, but it fizzled out on them so now they’re falling back on the old strategy that failed last time.
They are hoping by going full hatred someone will try again to end the life of President Trump or those around him. The demonrats are evil. Simple as that.
Ending racist policies which mandated creation of ‘majority minority’ districts drawn for the purpose of carving out race based representation schemes with the practical effect of guaranteeing the victory of one political party is unsurprisingly upsetting that political party. Tough cookies.
Yes, the Dhimmi-crat Party’s vile apparatchiks inciting their rabid, fanatical base of communists, Islamofascists/Muslim supremacists, criminals and terrorists to express hatred of and violence towards conservatives, Jews and Christians, and the U.S., broadly, is a well-worn message and strategy, not a new one.
Hate is the Dems win/win strategy. If they can inflame some leftist loon into actually carrying out what three have already failed at, they get to laugh into the future about how Trump ‘deserved it’ and such. If they get one of his family or appointees killed, they’ll be just as happy. Meanwhile, they can push unverified lies about how everything Trump does is bad/evil/fattening by way of a complacent media for the next three years. Hate is their fuel.
I wasn’t aware that the retarded communists had stopped using that strategy.
I;m not sure how many more votes they can squeeze out of Orange man bad. All it can do is perhaps get their own base out to vote. Since it’s an off year election perhaps that’s all they want to do.
Yes, that is exactly the point. Their big worry is that they’re base won’t turn out, so they’re dialing it up to twenty-leven.
Beware the revenge of the Troglodyte Party. They have clubs.
Define “warfare”, Hakeem. Be truthful!
The Left/Dems and media have constant TDS, but there is no plans for anything to help the American citizen. I expect the fall elections to hurt the Left/Dems and long elected politicians trying to keep their jobs. People are looking for change in both parties.
How can you fall back on something that has been your only strategy in several years.
Because they were trying something new. It didn’t work, so now they’re back to the same old thing that failed last time.
No Kings!
Trump is Literally Hitler!
Eat the Billionaires!
Democrats are like a bunch of nine-year-olds running a “He-Man Woman Haters Club.”
the goal is more violence from the left
kentaji just stated in a public speech that she wished more people stood up for,,did something about the way the scouts has been ruling on these issues
what actions is she calling for,,knowing that her side is violent,, that could “help” her agenda???
…branches or beholden to people,” Jackson said during an appearance before hundreds of students at Southern Methodist University.
“I just wish that people really focused on that and, therefore, stood up in some ways for the judiciary, when people — judges are being attacked and undermined, that is really an attack on our society.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/12/justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-judicial-independence-00918230
when trump said:
On January 6, 2021, immediately after telling supporters to “fight like hell,” Donald Trump said, “And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” and in the same speech urged the crowd that “we’re going to walk down to the Capitol” and later encouraged them to go to the Capitol “peacefully and patriotically.” Transcripts and contemporaneous reporting record both the fiery “fight like hell” passage and adjacent exhortations to march and to be “peaceful,” a juxtaposition central to debates about whether his words amounted to incitement [1
https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/what-did-trump-say-after-fight-like-hell-jan-6-2021-e1c059
They have no policies to run on at all.
Nothing but HATE.
Its amazing that they can continue to exist.
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