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Rev. Al Sharpton appeared on MSNOW Sunday 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 a protest in 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.
Sharpton warned that programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare, public education funding, and public health funding could be at risk if Democrats lose these political fights.
He even brought up reparations, saying elected officials would decide whether such policies move forward.
Democrats want voters to believe that every major policy issue must be filtered through race. Redistricting becomes voter suppression. A Supreme Court ruling becomes an attack on minorities. A Republican map becomes a threat to democracy.
Instead of explaining why their policies work, Democrats tell voters that Republicans are trying to take away their rights.
The left has used this tactic for years. When Democrats lose an argument on crime, education, immigration, or the economy, they turn the debate into race.
They do not want to talk about failing schools in Democrat-run cities. They do not want to talk about crime in communities that have been run by Democrats for generations. They do not want to talk about the cultural and economic problems that their own policies helped create.
Instead, they blame Republicans, the Supreme Court, and the country itself.
What should have been a discussion about redistricting became another cable news sermon about race, power, and fear.
The comparison to the civil rights movement was especially insulting. The Americans who marched in Selma faced real violence, legal segregation, and government-backed discrimination.
Democrats are not defending democracy by calling every political defeat racist. They are trying to scare voters into believing that losing power is the same as losing rights.
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