The temper tantrum that the Democrats decided to throw over the Texas redistricting efforts is a microcosm of what the party has become. All theatrical performance, no substance, and willing to look hypocritical to protect their own progressive ideologies. The Texas Democrats whimper of a fight in 2025 is just another failure in a long line of temper tantrums from the party.
In 2003, we had a similar instance. Texas was doing redistricting maps, and to block the proposed maps, the Democrats fled. They went to Oklahoma, a Republican stronghold, and New Mexico, while trying to gum up the works. It failed miserably then, as the maps passed anyway. In 2025, they ran to various blue states, crying to Governors to help them. As you know, it failed spectacularly, as the maps passed regardless.
Arthur Schaper of Mass Resistance says this is just what we have come to know from the Democrats, whose efforts in 2025 put themselves in a further spiral than already present.
"They go to the most gerrymandered state in the country, Illinois...who has boxed out all but three Republicans in a state with 18 districts...it is just complete hypocrisy," he says.
It was indeed humorous watching the Democrats scream about redistricting and gerrymandering. Then, run into the arms of a state which has gerrymandered itself into permanent Marxism. They did the same by running to California, which is also heavily gerrymandered. Damned be the image, Democrats will be hypocritical if it serves their own agenda.
That agenda and platform they push is essentially hating President Trump, which has been widely rejected by Americans. Democrats said the Texas redistricting was the state doing the "bidding of President Trump," calling it racist, fascist, and a whole host of terms of which they likely do not know the actual definition.
All of it has become political theatre, rather than actual politics.
"They are not pushing any kind of solutions or values...it is all performance to show they are the most woke and boldest in their progressive aspirations," says Schaper. "They cannot break out of it because the party has become an anti-Trump party...they are defined by their hatred for Trump."
The Texas Democrat problem is the embodiment of the wider Democrat problem. All theatre, no action, and no real policy to fix the problems they hold so dear. It is all hatred, vitriol, conspiracy, and a lack of respect or empathy for any dissenting viewpoints.
At one point, the Democrats had actual momentum in Texas. In 2018, Robert Francis O'Rourke came somewhat close to unseating Ted Cruz in the Senate. But in the short time since then, under the Biden Administration's open border policy, the momentum was annihilated.
"Texas got a dose of what the Democrat party wants...open borders, destruction of families, and destruction of communities...and Texas did not want it," Schaper says.
Schaper adds the Democrats are split into two factions. The progressive, and the alienated older school Democrat.
The Democrats need to pick a path. If they know what is best, they will go with the older school Democrat path. You know, the kind that won elections. But as the party stands, it is set to continue the violent rhetoric it spreads in its agenda. As a result, it will continue falling into irrelevance in Texas, and nationally.
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