Republicans Will Keep Losing Until They Realize Power Isn’t Evil
Nathan Stone
Unless Virginia voters reject the new congressional district plan created and passed by a Democrat legislature and signed by a “moderate” Democrat governor, Republicans are set to lose four congressional seats they currently hold. The new map allows only one of Virginia’s 11 districts to be represented by a Republican, despite Republicans representing almost half of the Virginia electorate. Meanwhile, Republicans in Indiana refused to redraw their congressional maps because of “principle.”
The contrast between Indiana and Virginia gets to the heart of the GOP’s biggest problem. Too many Republicans and conservatives seem to think that exercising the slightest hint of power is tantamount to putting on the One Ring of Sauron. Power, in this set-up, is not only dangerous and corrupting but unconstitutional, since the whole point of checks and balances is to prevent power from becoming concentrated. Thus, Republicans, up to now, have refused to follow Texas’ example and redraw congressional red-state maps, have refused to shelve the filibuster to get their agenda past the Democrat piranhas, and have been reluctant to pass national voter ID laws, even though it is a wildly popular issue, with even 71 percent of Democrats being for it. Actually exercising power unilaterally (and not bipartisanly) would make us no different from the Democrats.
While Republicans worry about their virtue, Democrats have already promised to end the filibuster if they retake the Senate. They have already promised to punish their enemies (us) if they retake power. And where they have regained power, they have damned the torpedoes and gone full steam ahead.
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