DAVID MARCUS: Prada bag power grab as elites hijack Old Dominion

Some 163 years agone this June, the radical of what is present West Virginia had had capable of the Old Dominion and the affluent planters who thought the nation’s rules did not use to them. As a result, today, West Virginia Republican voters person a beardown dependable successful Congress, portion those successful the parent authorities conscionable had theirs stripped away.

Let’s beryllium wholly clear. After Tuesday’s constrictive electoral triumph for the anti-American redistricting designed to springiness Virginia, a authorities that is 45% Republican, a 10-1 vantage successful its House of Representatives delegation, Democrats are susceptible of anything, nary substance however immoral oregon duplicitous.

And it's not conscionable the politicians this time. It was Democratic voters, mostly successful the wealthy, elite bluish counties, who cynically chose to disenfranchise their poorer neighbors to the south.

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger delivers the Democratic effect to U.S. President Donald Trump's State of the Union code connected February 24, 2026 successful Williamsburg, Virginia. Spanberger is serving successful her archetypal twelvemonth arsenic politician and is the archetypal pistillate to clasp the presumption successful the Commonwealth of Virginia. (Mike Kropf/Getty Images)

Just arsenic elite Virginians from places similar Fairfax and Richmond went to warfare successful 1860 to defy Republicans and support what they viewed arsenic the motivation necessity of slavery, this week, their heirs, those aforesaid Virginia Democrats, dropped their ain nuke connected democracy.

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Today, the contented is not slavery, although, let’s beryllium honorable the amerciable migrant nannies successful Loudoun County travel astatine a discount price. But rather, Democrats would person america judge that President Donald Trump is specified a menace to America, that rules indispensable beryllium breached to halt him.

Funny, they said precisely the aforesaid happening astir Abraham Lincoln.

Democrats successful the Mother of States knew damn good conscionable however outrageous this caller redistricting is. It's wherefore they ne'er showed the caller representation successful an ad, oregon ever mentioned the caller 10-1 D to R ratio, and insisted that this extremist enactment of alleged fairness is lone temporary.

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The impermanent statement was peculiarly disgusting, arsenic if stealing people’s votes erstwhile successful a portion is fine. Perhaps Virginia should alteration its motto from, ‘Sic Semper Tyrannis,’ ‘Ever specified to tyrants,’ to ‘Tyrannidem Aliquando,’ or, ‘Tyranny Sometimes."

Democrats person argued that they are simply trying to support up with the redistricting successful Texas, but Texas didn’t springiness the GOP 90% of its House seats. It didn’t acceptable up a concern wherever 1 affluent metropolis similar Fairfax has an Octopus grip connected poorer, agrarian voters.

Basically, the radical successful Virginia who get ungraded nether their fingernails astatine enactment were told by screeching, rich, achromatic ladies with Prada bags that they person nary accidental successful Congress anymore. In expansive aged Virginia fashion, the elites volition rule, the peasants volition serve.

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Professional Republicans, and the politicians who wage them, request this to beryllium a aftermath up call. As I reported past week from Southern Virginia, the authorities and nationalist GOP wasn’t conscionable outspent and outworked, they hardly seemed to try.

GOP insiders archer maine that a fistful of governmental consulting firms grip astir each GOP campaigns, including this flaccid effort to halt the gerrymandering. But these lovable losers, the aforesaid ones who warned america astir Trump, who really wins, get paid immoderate the results.

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who thinks helium is simply a pastor, not a politician, insists that we inactive cannot stroke up the filibuster to walk the Save America Act and support our elections, due to the fact that if helium does, past Democrats whitethorn yet bash it, too.

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With each owed respect to Thune, the Democrats conscionable disenfranchised astir each Republican successful Virginia. They aren’t going to respect the filibuster. To proceed to suggest they volition is simple-minded madness astatine this point.

It is clip for Republicans to deliberation bigger, to recognize the enormity of the combat they are in. Proposals to adhd lefty Arlington and Alexandria to Washington D.C. should perfectly beryllium connected the table.

Further, plans by Republican West Virginia authorities Sen. Chris Rose to connection astir 30 borderline counties successful Virginia the accidental to articulation the Mountain State should beryllium vigorously pursued.

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People similar to marque jokes astir my adopted location authorities of West Virginia, and yeah, we mightiness beryllium poorer and little educated than different states, but we damn good don’t fto affluent elites bargain the precise rights that gave our location its bloody birth.

Those men backmost successful 1863 chose wisely erstwhile they created West ‘By God’ Virginia, and it is due to the fact that of them that I woke up Wednesday greeting with my voting rights intact. That is much than I tin accidental for my neighbors successful the Old Dominion, who person returned to regularisation by the affluent and powerful.

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