OPINION:
Democrats, in the wake of court rulings that reeled in their ability to redraw congressional maps in their party’s favor, have reacted with calls to do whatever it takes to win the midterms and beyond.
“I’m focused on the political fight,” said Rep. Jennifer McClellan, Virginia Democrat, on “The Hill Sunday” to discuss her state’s crushed hopes to pick up potentially four seats in the midterm.
That’s the problem with today’s Democrat Party.
Democrats are so focused on the fight — on the political fight — on winning at all costs in the political fight — they forget to talk about their platforms. They completely omit discussion of their principles. They totally overlook the idea that politics are the means of advancing ideas to benefit the country and its citizens, while upholding the basics of the Constitution.
They ignore the fact that their jobs are to represent the people. They seek only personal power and personal glory.
How depressing to be a Democrat.
“I am focused on making sure that this November, we pick up as many of these seats in Virginia as possible, no matter what the ultimate map looks like, and that we fight against what the Jim Crow south is doing to dilute black voters and eliminate black representation so that they can get a Republican Congress, because they know the only way they can win is not on the merits of their ideas and actions, but by rigging these maps,” McClellan said, The Hill reported.
That’s called projection.
Democrats aren’t happy the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Voting Rights Act could not be used as justification for states to create majority-black voting districts — to base the boundaries of their districts solely on the color of voters’ skins. So they accuse Republicans of rigging elections. Go figure. It’s only in the twisted minds of Democrats that abolishing something based entirely on the color of skin — on race — is an act of racism.
The Democrats aren’t happy, either; they wasted millions and millions and more millions of dollars trying to shove through an unconstitutional, illegal redistricted map in Virginia that would have changed a 6-5 representation in Congress — favoring Democrats, by the way — to potentially 10-1, in Democrats’ favor. When the state’s highest court struck down this venture, ruling it violated state law, Democrats quickly cried foul. Once again, twisted Democrat minds went on display. Virginia’s 6-5 Democrat-Republican split makes it one of the fairest representations of voter will in the nation. Only in Democrats’ minds is that 6-5 tally unfair; to them, a 10-1 would have been fair.
So what are they doing now?
“The New York Times reported that, in a conversation with U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, some Virginia Democrats had floated ‘an audacious and possibly far-fetched idea’ to replace the Virginia Supreme Court justices and re-litigate the case to get their preferred results,” Cardinal News wrote.
Democrats want to change laws — quickly! — to cut the justices’ tenure by 21 years.
Then they want to go back to court — quickly! — and get the new justices to rubber-stamp the previously tossed redistricting map that favors Democrats, 10-1.
“It’s gained traction in the hothouse of social media. Now it’s made its way into a conversation with a prospective speaker of the House and the reporting of one of the nation’s more important news organizations,” Cardinal News wrote.
Court packing.
Court control.
These are the Democrat Party’s so-called principles and platforms?
“The Ragin’ Cajun [Democrat strategist James Carville] who once advised President Bill Clinton … said the quiet part out loud … [and] recently argued that if Democrats win back both chambers of Congress, they should move immediately to make Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico states to bank four more U.S. Senate seats and expand the U.S. Supreme Court to 13 justices, packing it with justices who would vote against protecting Second Amendment rights. That wasn’t the most revealing part, though. Carville’s advice was not to persuade the public. It was to conceal the agenda until after the election. ‘Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it,’ he flatly stated,” The Firearm Industry Trade Association wrote.
Do it in secret.
There is no better summary of what the Democrat Party has become than that. Democrats have zero ideas, zero principles, zero platforms, save for shoving into existence systems aimed solely at solidifying their party’s power. And doing it on the sly, behind the backs of their own voters.
If Democrats want to win back the support of the voters, they ought to focus not on building their own petty, personal political power bases, and instead on offering citizens something of substance, something of value, something that actually benefits the nation.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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