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by Frank Holmes, reporter

Less than a year-and-a-half after President Trump returned to office, Republicans across the country are doing something that once seemed impossible: They’re acting like winners.

And nothing makes the GOP’s consultant class of professional losers angrier than the idea that the American voters might get what they want—or that their clients will have to deliver on their campaign promises.

States nationwide are redrawing their political maps to reflect the will of the voters. In red states, that means Democratic districts disappear.

But Republicans In Name Only (RINOs) from Congress and from D.C.’s Beltway “strategist” industry have swarmed the media, begging Republicans to please stop redistricting plans that will win future elections…and make candidates less dependent on consultants.

The consummate D.C. insider, Karl Rove, tied himself into knots trying to prove how midterm redistricting could backfire on Republicans on Fox News’ low-rated Sunday Night in America, hosted by anti-Trump Republican Trey Gowdy.

With his overused whiteboard, Rove sketched out that Republicans would gain eight to 12 seats and Democrats might create five or six for a pro-Republican “net of three, or maybe of six.” His numbers may be off. As The Horn told you, other estimates put the number of districts affected by the Supreme Court’s Callais decision much higher, perhaps as many as 21. Some believe the ruling alone could wipe out much of the Democratic Party’s congressional delegation. The head of the Congressional Black Caucus calls redistricting “devastating.”

But somehow, Rove told Republican viewers on Fox News, giving Republicans more seats is bad, because President Trump will make Americans feel “malaise” and that will make math work backwards. Trump strategist Steve Bannon responded by nicknaming the Bush insider “Karl ‘Always Been Wrong’ Rove.” But he isn’t alone.

The same line came from Fox News talking bald-headed Ari Fleischer, another George W. Bush alumnus. “Unleashing Texas was bad for the nation, and it turned out to be bad for the GOP,” he said. “This was avoidable, and if Texas hadn’t gone first, it is conceivable that Republicans actually would be better off than where they are now.”

“So, Republicans picked the fight and lost the fight,” Fleischer lied.

These Republicans sound more off-base than Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York socialist with an eye on the presidency in 2028. “States like Tennessee want to wipe out every black representative,” she said. Tennessee has no black representatives and only one Democrat: pasty white liberal Steve Cohen.

But the real problem isn’t Fox News Republican consultants. As The Horn discovered, it’s Republicans sitting in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, who don’t want to shake up the cozy, one-party system that lets them rack up trade deals for their families as they screw yours.

A few congressional RINOs even went public with their plea for Republicans to please stop asking them to do their jobs. And they’ve tried to claim they’re really working in voters’ best interests.

Trump-hating Republican Rep. Don Bacon, R.-Neb., told the media what it wanted to hear: that letting Republican voters elect conservative congressmen is bad for conservatism. “We’ll pay for it in November,” Bacon crackled.

One liberal Republican congressman, Mike Lawler of New York, tied redistricting to the Fake News media’s allegations that President Trump is a dictator. Lawler called midterm redistricting “completely the antithesis of representative democracy.” “Texas was a mistake,” stated Rep. Jay Obernolte, who has at best a moderate record.

Obernolte’s opposition could be chalked up to the fact that his seat is directly affected by Gavin Newsom’s attempt to wipe out every Republican seat in California. But what explains the the stance of Senate Majority Leader, Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota? He, too, reportedly stands against the plan, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Add up the math, and America’s sad state becomes clear.

Beltway consultants want Congress closely divided, so their parties need their advice. Like 1984, the make-believe warfare has to last forever, or their paycheck goes away.

Meanwhile, renegade Republicans in the closely-divided House of Representatives team up with the Senate leader, who determines what bills make it to the floor, to kill good legislation.

No wonder funding for ICE has taken months.

No wonder the SAVE America Act can’t advance through the Senate.

No wonder good House bills come out as a tangled, liberal mess after Thune works them over.

Of course, the GOP infighting comes in addition to sniping from liberal and “mainstream” pundits like Jonathan Martin of Politico, who calls President Trump the “pre-adolescent-in-chief” while allegedly warning the GOP that “Trump’s Redistricting Push Could Cost Republicans More Than It Gains.”

But the RINO-conservative civil war ignores whole swaths of the underlying story—something The Horn would never do.

First, Republicans didn’t start the redistricting fight in Texas. Democrats in Congress and their allies in the Fake News media always leave out New York state, led by Democrats like Governor Kathy Hochul and democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, which approved a map giving Democrats four more U.S. House seats in 2024. “Democrats started this,” declared Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C. “Republicans are just trying to catch up.”

Second, it ignores the real threat to the American republic: the plans of Democrats to pack the Supreme Court, add new states to the union, give tens of millions of illegal aliens amnesty, and “crush” anyone who resists in every way imaginable. “We are in an era of maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time!” insisted House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., late last month.

He upped the ante on Wednesday, vowing to ontologically annihilate Republicans after they retake Congress this November. “We’re gonna crush their souls,” said the ineffective Democratic leader.

Third, the brouhaha over redistricting comes as South Carolina stands poised to introduce a 7-0 Republican House map that seemed destined to become law…except for opposition from Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey and a dwindling gaggle of RINOs.

And they appear to have succeeded. Massey voted to kill the map and leave things alone, saying his state is “stronger” with a “vibrant and viable Democratic Party.”

The state had until 5 p.m. Thursday to overcome Massey’s opposition. As The Horn went to press, the limit had not yet expired.

As Rove and the RINOs try to keep South Carolina from moving forward, conservatives are fighting back.

Jeffries and his minions are “throwing a conniption fit,” said Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, because Republicans are pointing out how “Democrats for years have been trying to basically fraudulently win the game by doing what you saw them do in New England.” That is, eliminate every Republican seat in an entire region of the country.

Now, Republicans have joined the game, and the liberals are losing their minds—and their districts.

“They’re freaking out,” said Roy, “because we’re winning.”

Democrats are repeating “the same old outdated, worn-out arguments that) ‘it’s racial. It’s not fair,’” Rep. Ralph Norman, who’s running for governor of South Carolina, told Newsmax. “How is drawing lines in a fair manner — where it doesn’t zig in and out of neighborhoods — how is that unfair?”

Turnabout is fair play, and fairness is what grifters and flacks in both parties hate the most. Here’s hoping the grassroots give it to them good and hard.

About the Author

Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”