Top Democrats have greeted the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent redistricting ruling with the same exhausted rhetoric they have parroted at least 127,000 times. The Louisiana v. Callais decision is — you guessed it — a flaming ball of racism! “Today is a dark day for America,” Democrat National Chairman Ken Martin trembled. “The Supreme Court just rolled back the clock on the Civil Rights Movement.” “This is about stripping political power from millions of people,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) quaked. The high court has “sent us backwards in time, back to the 1870s and ’80s, where the South and southern legislators, through terrorism, intimidation, and worse were able to stop African-Americans from having representation in Congress.” Rep. Troy Carter (D-Louisiana) accused Republicans of staging “a mad dash across the South to get rid of African-American representation.”  “It’s a comprehensive approach to creating Jim Crow 2.0,” according to Rep. James Clyburn (D-South Carolina). Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Davante Lewis says that SCOTUS applied “a defibrillator to the heart of Jim Crow.” “Given an opportunity left to themselves without any guardrails, white Republican elected officials would wipe out every opportunity for black people to be elected,” Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi) erupted on CNN. State Rep. Justin Jones (D-Tennessee) said his GOP colleagues were “seething with racism.” He called Republican Speaker Cameron Sexton the “grand wizard in chief,” a Ku Klux Klan reference. Jones decried GOP re-mapping as “a form of Jim Crow terror.” Inside Tennessee’s state capitol in Nashville, Jones burned a photo of the Confederate flag. This confirmed his breathtaking historical ignorance. Jones’ fellow Democrats, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee, hoisted the Stars and Bars in 1861 and defended it in the Civil War. Republican President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant defeated the rebels in 1865 and lowered the Confederate flag across the vanquished former slave states. Democrats then battled pro-black Republican Reconstructionists, oppressed emancipated slaves, and disenfranchised Southern blacks until 1964. That summer, Republican senators overcame a 60-day segregationist-Democrat filibuster and placed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 onto Democrat President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s desk. He signed it that July 2.  Today’s Democrats grossly overreact to SCOTUS’ 2026 Callais decision. Conservative Justice Sam Alito’s 6-3 majority opinion reasserted language first expressed in 1943’s Hirabayashi v. United States case: “Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.”  In Callais, Alito wrote that activating section 2 of the Voting Rights Act requires “a strong inference that intentional discrimination occurred.” Furthermore, states may “draw districts based on nonracial factors, including to achieve partisan advantage.” In her dissenting opinion, liberal Justice Elena Kagan argued: “If other States follow Louisiana’s lead, the minority citizens residing there will no longer have an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice.” Can Kagan read the minds of “minority citizens?” If not, how would she know whether the “candidates of their choice” are minorities, Democrats, or anything else?  Also important: Where is it written that minority candidates must represent minority voters? Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District is 61.3 percent black and only 24.5 percent white, the Census Bureau reports. And yet, since 2006, this majority-black, greater-Memphis electorate has voted 10 times to send Steve Cohen to the U.S. House. Cohen is white. Conversely, the Left whines that black Democrats can win only if a majority of voters of color (typically black) elect them. They assume that black contenders cannot secure a plurality or even a majority of white votes. This racist argument suggests that black candidates lack the charm, ideas, or ideas to win white votes, and/or whites are too bigoted to back blacks. Thus, race-obsessed Democrats concentrate black candidates in constituencies that resemble South Africa’s Apartheid-era Bantustans. Predominantly minority congressional districts recall Bophuthatswana, KwaZulu, Transkei, and other black “homelands.” And yet, for decades, constituencies with neither black majorities nor shapes like Rorschach blots have elected black Democrats and Republicans. • Democrat Barack Obama comfortably captured the White House in 2008 and easily gained reelection in 2012, when America was 12.6 percent black. Enough of the 73.9 percent white population supported him to spell victory. • Democrat Deval Patrick became governor of Massachusetts in 2010, when it was 6.8 percent black and 81.1 percent white. • “Eight white-majority districts elected black members of Congress this year,” the Washington Post crowed on Nov. 19, 2018. “That’s a breakthrough.” These included “Squad” members Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts’ Seventh Congressional District (24.3 percent black; 50.5 percent white) and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District. (17.0 percent black; 67.3 percent white).  The Post added, “[S]ix of these eight newly elected representatives took seats previously held by Republicans.” So, racist whites rested their Confederate flags long enough to abandon white Republicans and elect black Democrats. Amazing! • U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) won in 2020, without redrawing the Garden State’s map (13.4 percent black; 65.5 percent white). • Virginians made Republican Winsome Earle-Sears lieutenant governor in 2021 (18.4 percent black; 60.8 percent white). • Minnesotans elected Democrat Keith Ellison attorney general in 2022 (7.0 percent black; 77.2 percent white). • Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-Connecticut-05) succeeded on Nov. 5, 2024 (9.7 percent black; 64.6 percent white). • Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Florida-19) triumphed that night (6.5 percent black; 69.8 percent white). • Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah-04) beat the racial odds. (1.5 percent black; 74.0 percent white) If the Left really wants more blacks in Congress, they should push black Republicans to represent majority-white districts. Let a hundred Byron Donalds bloom. Let a hundred Burgess Owens contend! Don’t hold your breath. If black representation drives black progress, why did prominent Democrats from Obama on down campaign for a white woman named Abigail Spanberger for governor of Virginia last November, rather than a black woman named Winsome Earle-Sears? Democrats value something more than giving blacks a leg up: Helping Democrats win, hands down. Spanberger is a left-wing Democrat. So, the spooky speeches about blazing crosses and dangling nooses went unshouted. Instead, the battle cry became: “Shove the black woman aside and elect the white lady.” For Democrats, it’s all about electing Democrats. Period. If they’re black, all the better. If not, screw “civil rights.” Drag the Democrat across the finish line, by any means necessary. ​Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor.