Tea at Trianon: The Real Reason Democrats Are Panicking Over Redistricting

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

The Real Reason Democrats Are Panicking Over Redistricting

From Overton:

He’s not backing down one inch—and they’re LOSING IT.
Governor Greg Abbott went on Fox News to defend Texas’s RIGHT to redraw its Congressional map.
But he ended up EXPOSING the REAL reason the left is panicking.
It’s NOT just about the lines. It’s about who’s switching sides.
This was a line in the sand.
With Democrats in full-blown meltdown mode, Governor Greg Abbott appeared on Fox News to break it down and defend the state’s right to redraw its congressional map.
Calm, clear, and utterly unshaken, Abbott laid out exactly what’s happening and why he’s not backing off.
“Sean, first of all, Texas is doing what we’re allowed to by the law,” Abbott told Hannity.
He reminded viewers that Democrats themselves sued after the last round of redistricting and lost.
“That lawsuit recognized that coalition districts are not required,” he explained.
“So Texas has a right to redraw these lines to FULLY represent the desires of every voter in the state.”
Then Abbott called out Texas Democrats for what he said was the real betrayal—not just abandoning the redistricting fight, but walking away from Texans in crisis.
“They ran away not just from this redistricting fight—they ran away from dealing with the flooding issues that are still echoing across the Kerrville area,” Abbott said.
“Families desperately need results from the state legislature in this 30-day special session that are not going to be delivered because Democrats are hanging out in Chicago and New York and other places.”
Texas law is on his side. (Read more.)