Dems Enraged Texas Out-Gerrymanders ‘Em

Letter to Ephesians: WSJ tells nation’s liberal pols “Please spare us the sanctimony that the Texas gerrymander is a unique threat to democratic competition, especially when blue states like Illinois, NY & California redistrict GOP voters off the map.

What got the paper’s editors’ goat in op ed titled, “The Democratic Protectorate of Illinois,” was the reality that “few do partisan gerrymanders better than Springfield liberals.” Actually it’s the Chicago Democratic Machine, not so much the liberals in the downstate capital, that calls most of the shots in the former Land of Lincoln. But, that’s grist for another commentary. To the point, the editors note, “Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and his allies purport to be outraged by the new Texas map, which could yield the GOP from three to five new House seats But ol’ JB knows how that’s done. Illinois has 17 House seats and 14 of them are held by Democrats. Thanks to successive map-drawing by Democrats, with no GOP check, the state’s districts are among the most gerrymandered in the country. Democrats control 82.4% of the state’s House seats, though in 2024 they won only 52.8% of the House popular vote in those districts...”

Like the libs in NY and California, the WSJ notes, “Mr. Pritzker is sabre-rattling that if Texas moves ahead with its new map, then Illinois might redraw its map to eliminate the three remaining Republicans.” As it happens, Massachusetts has nine House Dems but no Reps. And, truth is, the woke Democrats have been particularly too good at playing the gerrymandering game for the country’s good.

Davd Soul