On Monday, Dan Proft had me on his Morning Answer show at AM 560 in Chicago, owing to a column I’d written last week at The American Spectator talking about the Texas Democrat “fleebagger” caucus who absconded on a private chartered jet away from the Lone Star State rather than participate in a special session to redraw Texas’ congressional map.

The funny thing about this is that the Texas legislature was called into session not because Gov. Greg Abbott is a racist who wants to disenfranchise Jasmine Crockett’s voters but because the Civil Rights Division of the United States Justice Department sent Texas a letter letting them know it considers at least four of their congressional districts to be racially gerrymandered. And as Harmeet Dhillon, who heads up that office in the Trump administration, noted in a couple of interviews yesterday, there is a Supreme Court case involving Louisiana’s racially-gerrymandered map which is expected to wipe out all such districts.

In other words, painting this as some sort of partisan exercise cooked up by Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton is inaccurate.

But of course Gene Wu, the psychopath who leads the fleebagger caucus, isn’t accusing Abbott of being the chief bad guy. He says Abbott is doing Donald Trump’s dirty work here.

Which seems like a terrible show of disrespect to the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, after all.

Past actions of that office have led to many efforts at redistricting, particularly in Southern states, and those efforts have exceedingly often resulted in quite irregular-shaped congressional districts that most people would consider to be conspicuous examples of racial gerrymandering.

Texas has gerrymandered districts in its current congressional map. That’s clear. Crockett’s district, in fact, looks like a decent example.

Sure seems like an awful lot of jagged edges to that thing, and it isn’t exactly a compact district which serves communities of interest. So yeah – one might expect this is a district deserving of some scrutiny.

There are obviously much worse districts out there, both in Texas and elsewhere. Illinois’ congressional map is just about the worst thing imaginable.

And interestingly enough, Texas has a black Republican congressman in Wesley Hurd, who’s extremely popular in a majority-white district and who’s thinking about running for the Senate against John Cornyn next year; if Hurd does, he might well be a dark horse worth watching in that race.

The point being there is no reason to draw a congressional map for the purpose of providing affirmative action for black Democrat politicians like Jasmine Crockett in a state where it’s plain to see that white voters will happily elect black folks to office.

There isn’t a single argument for any of the Democrats’ positions. It’s all gibberish spoken around the idea that they’ve got a divine right to an easier road to political power than anyone else, and any intrusion on that status quo is some sort of Nazi atrocity.

When the real atrocity is that utter morons like Crockett and Gene Wu are in positions of power at all.

This is all going to change. It’s changing now. And when the Supreme Court finally makes itself heard in the Callais v. Louisiana case, the entire house of cards Democrats have relied on to get racial set-aside congressional and legislative districts rather than having to win competitive races will be coming down.