Rev. Al Sharpton appeared onMSNOWSunday and pushed the left’s latest political narrative: Republican redistricting is supposedly the modern version of the civil rights battles of the 1960s.
The segment focused on aprotestin Montgomery, Alabama, where civil rights and faith leaders gathered under the banner “All Roads Lead to the South.”
Sharpton and the panel framed the fight over redistricting as a direct attack on black and Latino voters, comparing current political disputes to Selma, Jim Crow, and the historic fight for voting rights.
But the entire argument showed exactly how Democrats use race when they cannot win a normal political debate.
Redistricting has always been political. Democrats draw maps to benefit Democrats. Republicans draw maps to benefit Republicans. That does not suddenly become Jim Crow when the map benefits Republicans instead of Democrats.
Yet on MSNOW, the left tried to make the issue sound like a national civil rights emergency.
One Democrat featured in the segment declared, “You can rig a map, but you can’t rig a movement,” while attacking the Supreme Court as “political hacks.”
That line exposed the problem. Democrats do not simply disagree with the Court. They attack the Court as illegitimate whenever the justices refuse to deliver the left’s preferred outcome.
The same strategy applies to redistricting. If Democrats win the map, democracy is working. If Republicans win the map, America is supposedly sliding back into Jim Crow.
That argument is dishonest, and most Americans can see through it.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
