It wasn't too terribly long ago that the Democrats went to the matresses over gerrymandering, defending the practice, no matter how insane the districts were, as a way to fight President Trump and stick it to Republicans in the midterms. They were so blinded by their Trump Derangement Syndrome and lust for power.
In Illinois, the 13th Congressional District runs across at least six counties from East St. Louis to Champaign. The 17th District runs from Rockford to the west along the Iowa border before hooking back into Normal and Bloomington.
Illinois’ map can’t be gerrymandered more than this. https://t.co/JTad357Tvw pic.twitter.com/4JsXugRysG
— Marathon Pundit (@Marathonpundit) June 13, 2026
Illinois was a fairer map in 2020 and was redistricted in 2022.
Reminding everyone that Illinois had a fair map in 2020:
— Jeremiah Watson (@JeremiahW2044) May 25, 2026
🟥 5 GOP
🟪 2 Competitve
🟦 11 DEM
In 22’, they gerrymandered the map to monstrosity, and got mad when North Carolina retaliated.
Illinois was closer than North Carolina in 2024, but the NC map gets more attention🤔 pic.twitter.com/J4CzTm22P2
Maryland's 3rd Congressional District is another mess, snaking from the Atlantic to the middle of the state and back north.
Map shows Maryland's 3rd Congressional District. Gerrymandering is pure madness. I'm puzzled why there isn't collective outrage about this in the US. Source: https://t.co/eqUxi68c5N pic.twitter.com/XLlrulUlJ5
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) October 12, 2020
New Jersey is also gerrymandered to favor Democrats.
Democrats in Jersey are silent on redistricting, citing the potential to take another seat in NJ. The issue here is this map is already Gerrymandered to hell helping out Democrats
— Wake Up NJ 🇺🇸 New Jersey (@wakeupnj) June 18, 2026
If I were the Republicans here, I'd kick things into gear to win seats backhttps://t.co/nG4nvWCrot https://t.co/K2XdvezYqo pic.twitter.com/iZEqe0faA1
States in the Northeast, as well as New Mexico and Hawaii, are gerrymandered to have zero Republican districts, despite the fact that Maine is 46 percent Republican, Massachusetts is 36 percent, New Hampshire is 48 percent, and Connecticut is 42 percent. New Mexico is roughly 32 percent Republican, and Hawaii, while it doesn't register by party, saw 37 percent of voters cast a ballot for Donald Trump in 2024.
Look at what Virginia did, or tried to do, after Abigail Spanberger was elected governor. They wanted to take the state's districts, which were six to five in favor of Democrats, and gerrymander it to give the Democrats 10 seats to one Republican. That was an illegal move shut down by the Virginia State Supreme Court.
Democrats believe that they are morally and politically obligated to gerrymander these states to thwart Republican votes. In Virginia, they even put in the amendment ballot language that they were doing this to "restore fairness" in the upcoming elections.
What's fair about a 10-to-one map in a state that's roughly half Republican? Nothing. But, then again, the Democrats' definition of fairness is "Heads we win, tails you lose."
The one thing Democrats didn't think about, however, is the consequences of their actions. In their desperation to stick it to Trump and ice out Republicans wherever they could, they sowed the seeds that led to many of them getting ousted by the candidates from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). The DSA has not been shy about its plan to wear the Democratic Party like a skin suit until they gain a majority and can try to enact their radical agenda.
And the Democrats handed them the ability to do that. Instead of pushing for sane gerrymanders, they created Frankenstein-esque maps. What did they think was going to happen? They concentrated their increasingly radical voter base, a base radicalized by Democrats telling them President Trump was Hitler, that Republicans are an existential threat to democracy, etc. etc. Only an idiot wouldn't have seen this coming.
Several months ago, Axios even reported that some Democrats were alarmed by the radicalism of their voter base, a base that increasingly demanded they get violent and risk being hurt—or worse—to advance a leftist political agenda and to oppose Republicans.
So it's no surprise that the Democrats not only built the platform on which the DSA will metaphorically hang them, but also handed the DSA the rope with which to do it. But the Democrats made the decision to have places like Maine be a zero Republican district state and to stitch together insane districts in Illinois, Maryland, and Virginia. They wanted districts that would vote blue, no matter who.
And now that voters are doing that, I have to ask the Democrats: was the gerrymandering worth it?
