What do you tell people whose entire worldview depends on the bizarre assertion that nothing has changed since 1960?
And that is the most charitable way of framing the problem, Most likely, there’s something more sinister at play.
Monday on the social media platform X, Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California became the second leftist in less than a week to embarrass himself by weighing in on South Carolina’s redistricting battle in a way that pretended Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina does not exist.
“South Carolina, where the first shot of the civil war was fired, where 40 percent of those enslaved came through the Charleston port, is today engaged in an ugly recidivism to draw maps that will deny a Black person the chance to serve in Congress,”Khannawrote. “The stakes could not be higher. Our political fight is not on a playground, but a moral battleground. We must stand for Black representation across the South.”
South Carolina, where the first shot of the civil war was fired, where 40 percent of those enslaved came through the Charleston port, is today engaged in an ugly recidivism to draw maps that will deny a Black person the chance to serve in Congress.
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna)May 12, 2026
In last month’s landmark Callais decision, the Supreme Courtruled6-3 that Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act does not require or permit states to draw congressional maps with race-based outcomes in mind.
Thus, states may not engage in racial gerrymandering to ensure that people of a certain skin color win elections. There is no “Black representation.” There is only representation.
As a result, Republican-dominated states have begun complying with Callais byredrawing their mapsto eliminate majority-black districts.
Like most Democrats, Khanna believes that black Americans cannot win elections or do much of anything without special advantages.
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