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TAYLOR: I believe we are approaching a tipping point.Let me start with a disclosure: politically, I was a Democrat until Presidents Kennedy and Johnson started and continued the Vietnam War.Then, I was a Republican until Nixon declared that he was not a crook.Now, I vote independently of both parties.Dennis Prager once said that “the Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced — the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.” As I write this, the left is capturing the Democratic Party — traditional advocates of free speech, equal rights, free-market capitalism, individual liberty, and racial integration — values shared by traditional conservatives.Consider the left’s recent attack on the Supreme Court.The Minority Leader of the House called it an “illegitimate Supreme Court majority.” The Senate Minority Leader described a recent ruling as a “despicable decision” and “a return to Jim Crow.” Others declared it a “dark day for America” that they would fight “tooth and nail.” This was their reaction to the Court’s ruling that Louisiana’s Senate Bill 8 congressional map — which created a second majority-Black district — was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.The ruling is legally complex and deserves more discussion than space allows here, but the left has reduced it to a single charge: a diminution of Black voting power.And it has enraged them.(See Louisiana v.Callais, April 2026) Their rage is fueled in no small part by the potential loss of a Democratic majority in the House in the 2026 midterm elections.They are heavily invested in criticizing southern states’ redistricting efforts — efforts that will eliminate racially gerrymandered districts in accordance with the law.(See Rucho v.Common Cause, 2019) Thomas Sowell, Victor Davis Hanson, and other prominent authors have long observed that the left tends to demonize the right for behaviors and motives the left itself employs far more aggressively.That hypocrisy is reliably dressed up — as it is here — as a “threat to democracy,” “authoritarianism,” “racism,” or whatever the accusation of the moment happens to be.And the current outcry is more of the same.If we examine the congressional delegations of reliably blue states and compare party representation to actual party votes in the 2024 election, we find that most have supermajority Democratic delegations that bear no resemblance to the 30 to 40 percent of their voters who lean Republican.Massachusetts, for example, sends nine Democrats and zero Republicans to Congress — in a state where Donald Trump received 36 percent of the vote.The same pattern holds true across New England.The Democratic Party has nothing to say about any of this.Then there is California, whose governor recently pushed through a redistricting bill that could reduce Republican representation from nine seats to four — out of a total of 52 — in a state where 38 percent of voters chose Trump in 2024.Democrats praised this as a “battle against Texas’ unlawful midterm redistricting,” conveniently ignoring the fact that states are generally free to redistrict as their constitutions and governing documents allow.And then there is Virginia, whose new governor campaigned on a promise not to redistrict — and then, upon taking office, put forward a plan that would give the state ten Democratic representatives and only one Republican.That would have shifted the current six-to-five ratio in a state where 46 percent of voters chose Trump.Democrats are now loudly condemning the Supreme Court for declining to intervene after the State Supreme Court invalidated the redistricting approval on procedural grounds.As is the case with most outcomes the left finds intolerable, this has become a “constitutional crisis” requiring an urgent fix.Former Vice President Kamala Harris recently called for discussion of “good ideas” that would address it — including statehood for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, a move that would add four reliably Democratic senators to the chamber.This proposal ignores the District’s unique constitutional status.The ten square miles were donated by the states of Maryland and Virginia specifically to serve as “the seat of Government of the United States.” (See Article I, Section 8, Clause 17, and the Twenty-Third Amendment.) As James Madison explained in Federalist No.43, the purpose was to give the federal government independence from any state that might harass, intimidate, or unduly influence Congress, the President, or federal operations — a concern made vivid in 1783 by the Philadelphia Mutiny, when Continental Army soldiers surrounded Congress and demanded back pay, forcing members to flee to New Jersey.Harris also raised the prospect of packing the Supreme Court — transforming it from a check on legislative and executive power into a rubber stamp for whichever party controls the other two branches.Franklin D.Roosevelt attempted precisely this during the New Deal era, and the nation wisely rejected it then.There are many other movements on the left that threaten the constitutional order, dressed in the language of fairness and equity — but space prohibits a full accounting here.What I will say is this: I believe we are approaching a tipping point.The rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness — endowed by our Creator and recognized by the Declaration of Independence — risk becoming privileges allocated by government at every level, distributed as those in power see fit.It is not too late.But it will require voting for leadership that genuinely stands against autocracy, from whatever direction it comes.