Here's How Trump Can Nuke Virginia's New Gerrymandered Map...
by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com,
Virginia used to be a model of fair redistricting. That reputation is now gone.
# THE TAKE
Virginia's redistricting collapse reveals a uncomfortable truth: good-government theater collapses the moment power shifts. The state didn't discover gerrymandering—it discovered it could win with it.
Trump "nuking" the map requires federal intervention, which ironically means *more* centralized power deciding electoral boundaries. Swapping one partisan scheme for another doesn't fix the disease.
The real scandal isn't that Virginia abandoned fairness. It's that we pretend gerrymandering is a Republican or Democratic problem when it's a *structural* incentive. Give any party control of mapmaking, watch what happens.
Virginia's fall from redistricting grace matters precisely because it proves clean maps aren't self-sustaining. They require constant political cost for maintaining them.
Until we remove the profit motive—independent commissions with teeth—expect every state to become Virginia eventually. Keep in mind that Virginia only narrowly backed Kamala Harris over Donald Trump in 2024 by roughly five points. Virginia is, in every way, a battleground state. Yet under the new map, nearly half the state’s voters effectively lose their voice. The new lines snake from densely packed, heavily suburbs deep into rural territory. There is nothing democratic about it. And the endgame is obvious. If these maps survive a court challenge, Democrats will have a much easier path to stacking Congress against President Donald Trump — setting up yet another sham impeachment attempt over nothing. Democrats aren’t even hiding what they’re doing anymore. Republicans have spent years playing nice while the left plays to win, and they play dirty. And there may be a remarkable way to stop it right now. Mizelle — former chief of staff to the U.S. Attorney General, former acting general counsel of DHS, former chief of staff at DHS, and former associate counsel to President Trump — has floated a counter-move. He’s calling it a form of “re-Districting,” and it could nuke the Democrats’ new gerrymandered map. In 1790, both Virginia and Maryland ceded territory to create the new national capital. Virginia’s portion — what is now Arlington County and the city of Alexandria — remained part of the District of Columbia until 1847, when Congress returned it to Virginia. The District had abolished it, and Virginia slaveholders didn’t want to give up their slaves. Democrats love to talk about the legacy of slavery to justify tearing down statues, renaming buildings, etc. Disclosure: NewsAnarchist aggregates from public records, API feeds (Federal Register, CourtListener, MuckRock, Hacker News), and independent media. AI-assisted synthesis. Always verify primary sources linked above.
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