It’s common knowledge in D.C. and around the country. The party in power in the White House historically loses seats in Congress. And of course, there is no doubt that Democrats are counting on history repeating itself in the November midterms.
They’ve been completely shut out of power for nearly two years. And were it not for the fact that there are still too many RINOs in Congress, they would have been left merely to fume at the rapid-fire passage of President Trump’s agenda.
That’s a topic for another time, this RINO problem. The good news is, we are about to get rid of a several of them after November. Thom Tillis: Gone. Mitch McConnell: Gone. Thomas Massie: Gone. John Cornyn: Gone. All of them will be replaced by solid MAGA-ites.
Which brings me back to the historical losses of power for the party in power: There’s a fantastic chance that won’t happen this time around.
Part of it is the continued strong support for Trump and MAGA. While Trump has been distracted somewhat by this Iran conflict, his supporters still know that Democrats cannot ever be given power again. What they have promised to do to our country is as repulsive as it is dangerous.
Part of it is this, too (with my emphasis):
The coast-to-coast battle to gain an edge in November’s elections through partisan gerrymandering is racing to its conclusion – with Republicans poised to finish with as many as 10 seats ahead of Democrats through redistricting alone.
The GOP kicked off the fight last year in Texas, changing boundaries for US House districts in the hopes of improving the party’s chances of surviving a blue wave this fall, with Democrats responding in turn. The US Supreme Court’s blockbuster decision last month to gut one of the remaining pillars of the 1965 Voting Rights Act further supercharged redistricting efforts across the South, prompting several Republican-controlled states to move election dates and eliminate districts with sizable Black populations.
The moves could be a major boon in efforts to protect House Speaker Mike Johnson’s razor-thin majority ahead of the midterm elections. But regardless of the outcome in November, the mid-decade redistricting battle has likely altered American politics permanently – fueling a growing appetite to redraw lines for partisan advantage every election cycle, rather than every decade after the census, as is traditional.
“There is no normal,” said Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Marymount’s law school who runs the “All About Redistricting” website. He pointed to the high court’s string of election-related rulings in recent years, including a 2019 opinion declaring that federal courts could not police partisan gerrymanders, as helping pave the way for the extreme actions now taking hold.
“The Supreme Court has effectively announced that the adults have left the room,” he said. “What you see is what you get when you reward bad behavior, which is a lot more bad behavior.”
Obviously, Levitt’s a left-wing Democrat who had no issues with his party using race to steal congressional seats for decades. Like every other member of the Domestic Terrorist Party, he’s just upset that the Supreme Court finally ruled that practice unconstitutional, because it is.
But the broader point is this: Between GOP redistricting, some of which has to be done now thanks to the SCOTUS ruling, and the fact that Democrats will lose close to 20 more seats after the 2030 census, Republicans are poised to govern as a majority for generations.
That means America will continue as founded for generations more, and that’s a very good thing.
