The “Confederate states” were all Democrat, and that label has been inapplicable for many decades. Newsom’s lie is exactly why the Supreme Court has properly determined that the 1965 Voting Right Act is fatally anachronistic in 2026. Question for the Governor: why should that map on the right make citizens more “angry” than the the nine blue states that have no GOP reps? Moreover, his own state locked in an equally rigged map to eliminate Republican districts.

Newsom is the last person with standing to protest gerrymandering.

Never mind: PBS News Hour host Amna Nawaz thought Newsom had a valid point, and asked fake conservative pundit David Brooks and former Washington Post dim bulb Ruth Marcus if Republicans are “rigging the system.” Quoting Newsom’s tweet, she said, “He listed states that now have new Republican-leaning maps, pointing out there were no votes here in Tennessee, in Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, and Texas. He ends with this: ‘Virginia’s voter-approved maps are thrown out. MAGA has rigged the system.’ David what do you make of that? Are Republicans rigging the system?”

[Point of order: Virginia’s voters approved not the Democrat-rigged map, but a deceptively worded referendum that characterized eliminating all the Republican-leaning districts as “fairness.”]

Proving once again that he has deteriorated into a predictable Axis mouthpiece, Brooks answered, “Well, he’s got a lot of company, I would say. You know, this is a classic case of how democracy decays. People have always been doing gerrymandering. It started getting worse in the 2010s, 2020s, when you had states like North Carolina, Maryland, Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania. These had totally rigged maps.”

Funny, Brooks didn’t mention all the New England states, Delaware and Hawaii. I guess that was good rigging. And like the CNN hack, Brooks solution was: “And so this is just how democracy ends. And what we need—Ruth, my constitutional lawyer, will tell us how to do this. We need some sort of constitutional amendment, so this is taken out of the democratic process. Like the Federal Reserve, let somebody else do it. Let Jerome Powell come in and redistrict. But we can’t live with this system.”

Marcus, on cue, responded, “This was a terrible week for democracy…we are stuck in this terrible cycle. Nobody should feel good about what Virginia did. Nobody should feel good about what California did. But Texas went first. Texas went first, at the urging of Donald Trump. And we have a situation—and it’s crazy to ask Democratic states, which have tried to get the partisanship out of districting, to just sit on their hands while the system is being rigged by the other side….We have now unleashed this never-ending and constant now, as you say, because we don’t wait for a new census cycle of retribution, and not just retribution, but assault on democracy, because the fundamental point of democracy is that voters get to decide who represents them. No longer.”

Texas went first, its all Trump’s fault, and Democrats have tried to get partisanship out of redisctricting! Ruth you ignorant slut...

Here is another fake narrative being peddled by the Axis and its allies:

Duh. Those Republican states do not require a vote by the public to redistrict. Virginia’s Constitution does, but there is a required process, which Virginia Democrats ignored. Oh yeah? Here’s another contrived complaint, from Bulwark anti-Trump pundit Will Salatan:

It’s right in the decision. Who criticizes a court ruling without reading it? Oh, only almost everybody, but Salatan is supposed to be smarter than the average Facebook knee-jerk. Behold:

We are witnessing the Axis of Unethical Conduct at its devious, hypocritical worst.