When you’re proud of something, you want people to see it. That’s why it’s telling that Virginia Democrats are asking Old Dominion residents to vote for a redistricting plan without allowing their proposed map to be printed on ballots.
But it’s no wonder: The mid-decade redistricting proposal is an obscene gerrymander that will wipe out all but one of the state’s Republican Party-leaning congressional districts. And of course they claim that this is all happening in the name of ‘democracy’.
This unfair power play attempts to make the congressional representation of a purple state almost as blue as Massachusetts. It takes away almost half of the Commonwealth (Virginia won 51.8%-46.6% for Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024). The proposed districts are extreme, running from densely populated blue areas deep into rural red areas. Federal government employees in Arlington and Fairfax will essentially dictate congressional representation of farmers and retailers from up to 100 miles away.
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Local airwaves have been flooded with advertisements touting this redistricting plan as a benevolent attempt to save democracy and “free and fair elections.” One ubiquitous ad shows former President Barack Obama continuing his tradition of honesty, as exemplified in his infamous statement: “If you like your plan, you can stick to your plan.” Now it’s “If you like your district, you can keep your district,” with the empty promise of returning to Virginia’s regular redistricting process in 2030.
The material provided to the grassroots is a little more transparent than the kind of false appeals to democracy used by the former president, governor and other scheming progressives. Yard signs supporting the initiative much more clearly state the intent of the initiative, calling on voters to “fight back” against MAGA.
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It is clear to anyone paying attention that, rather than an attempt to “restore fairness” or “level the playing field,” the Virginia Gerrymander, or Virgerrymander, is nothing more than an attempt to stack the deck in favor of the Democrats to weaken President Donald Trump.
What can the president and his allies do? In addition to motivating Virginians to resist this power grab, Trump has another tool he can use to “fight back,” to use the supporters’ phrase. He could fight fire with fire and choose a different kind of redistribution.
In 1790, Virginia and Maryland each gave three square miles of land to the federal government to create a district for a new national capital. That land in Virginia remained part of the District of Columbia until 1847, when it was returned to the Commonwealth. The shameful reason for that return was to protect slavery in Virginia when the District abolished it.
This came into question after the Union defeated the forefathers of this current attempt to rig elections and resist elected federal leadership in the Civil War. Other presidents, including William Howard Taft, have deemed retrocession unconstitutional and sought to reclaim the land for the District, but the Supreme Court has never been asked to intervene.
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President Trump could issue an executive order declaring the slavery-motivated retrocession unconstitutional, prompting certain legal action, and finally allowing the courts to decide whether the County of Arlington and the City of Alexandria are indeed part of the District of Columbia.
This order would have a better legal basis than many of President Joe Biden’s most egregious orders, such as imposing an eviction moratorium or canceling billions in student debt with the stroke of a pen. As one of the deepest blue areas in the Commonwealth – and the country – and packed with federal government employees, residents of this region should feel right at home as part of D.C.
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In an ad urging voters to support her party’s gerrymandering plan, Spanberger calls it an “extraordinary moment.” That’s how it is. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures – measures that, unlike the Virgerrymander, are legal and ethical.
If Virginia Democrats’ redistricting effort is successful, President Trump will have to reapportion Virginia. It will not only neutralize the attempt by the president’s political opponents to stack Congress against him — thus shielding him from another likely sham impeachment — but, most importantly, it will save a large number of red Virginians from having their votes canceled by deep blue, DC-adjacent liberals.
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