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They always tell us it’s about fairness. About making sure every vote counts. About representing the people. But every now and then, one of them slips up and tells the truth.
Representative Don Beyer, a Virginia Democrat, admitted to NBC News what Republicans have known all along: the Democratic push to redraw Virginia’s congressional map isn’t about fairness for Virginians — it’s about taking back the House to stop Donald Trump. “Even though this seems unfair in Virginia, it’s totally fair for America,” Beyer said, according to NBC News, referring to a referendum that would allow Richmond Democrats to gerrymander four of five Republican congressmen out of their seats. Most of the new districts would be drawn from dense, left-wing Fairfax County, effectively silencing conservative voters across the commonwealth.
There it is. The quiet part, said out loud. Democrats don’t care about fairness. They care about power. They care about stopping the America First agenda by any means necessary, even if it means rigging the game in a state that elected Glenn Youngkin governor just a few years ago. Virginia isn’t a 90-10 state. It’s a 51-49 state, as House Minority Leader Terry Kilgore pointed out in a statement to local media. But Democrats are willing to silence nearly half the commonwealth’s voters in the name of “fairness” — fairness for their agenda, not for the people they claim to represent.
This is the same playbook Democrats run everywhere. They talk about “democracy” while working to undermine it. They claim to protect voting rights while rigging district lines to ensure their opponents can’t win. They call their opponents fascists while using every tool of government to crush dissent. The referendum goes before voters in April, and early voting numbers have reportedly favored Republicans . But Democrats have a well-oiled machine for these kinds of fights, funded by dark money groups and backed by a media that will frame any Republican opposition as “voter suppression.”
What’s happening in Virginia is a preview of what Democrats want nationwide. If they can gerrymander their way to a House majority, they can block Trump’s agenda, launch endless investigations, and prepare the ground for 2028. They don’t need to win arguments when they can redraw the lines. The Republican Party in Virginia has been fighting an uphill battle for years, and this latest power grab shows Democrats have no intention of playing fair. When you can’t win on ideas, you change the rules. When you can’t persuade voters, you silence them.
Should Republicans fight fire with fire and gerrymander Democratic seats in red states? Or does that make us no better than them? Let me know what you think.
Providence watches over the bold.
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