The battle over redistricting in America has shifted from a contentious legal fight into an increasingly dark and violent political war, marked by a disturbing escalation in rhetoric and tactics from the Democratic Party. Long gone are the days when redistricting was a dry, procedural process debated in commissions and state houses. Today, it has transformed into a no-holds-barred brawl, with Democrats abandoning any pretense of rule-bound fairness and embracing an aggressive, winner-takes-all mentality.
Representative Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) perfectly encapsulated this shift in an appearance on CNN’s “Newsroom” this weekend. During the interview’ Swalwell made it clear that the Democrats now see redistricting as an existential battle where anything goes.
Democrats have long exploited gerrymandering and even skewed census counts to inflate their power in Congress. And instead of seeing Republican pushback as a wake-up call, they treat it as an excuse to double and triple down on their abuses. Make no mistake about it, for Swalwell and his fellow Democrats, preserving the old rules or sticking to the high road is no longer a priority. “So I'm not going to wake up the day after the election and look at democracy in ashes and say, well, at least we protected California's Independent Redistricting Commission," he said. "No. I'm going to support fighting fire with fire, because that's the only way I can protect the most vulnerable.”
Democrats have spent years claiming a moral high ground on the issue of gerrymandering, but they aren’t even denying their true intentions anymore. In fact, Swalwell revealed the true nature of how Democrats now view their opponents: as adversaries to be defeated by any means necessary. When CNN host Omar Jimenez attempted to bring up concerns that meeting “at that low point” could overreach or backfire—Swalwell didn’t hesitate.
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“No. When they go low, we're going to bury them below the Capitol," he said. "That's what we're going to do because this is about protecting democracy. And right now, as you see, D.C. has been militarized, and we were weak as Democrats, frankly. We passed under Speaker Pelosi in the House of Representatives in April 2021 D.C. statehood, and what happened in the Senate? A few in the Senate refused to break the filibuster. And look where we are today.”
This fight isn’t just about district lines—it’s about the Democrats’ endgame. They’ve already telegraphed the moves they intend to make the moment they seize enough power: granting statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico to lock in four new Democrat Senate seats, abolishing the filibuster to ram through their agenda, rewriting election laws to make them easier to manipulate, scrapping the Electoral College, and even packing the Supreme Court. None of this is speculation—these are ideas openly championed by Democrat politicians, their consultants, and their allies in the media.
Eric Swalwell made the agenda crystal clear. “We have paid the price for our weakness in the past,” he declared. “And we can’t be so weak next time we have power.”
"When they go low, we're going to bury them below the Capitol. That's what we're going to do, because this is about protecting democracy," @RepSwalwell tells me on California's redistricting efforts. pic.twitter.com/51w3xfx6Ir
— Omar Jimenez (@OmarJimenez) August 16, 2025
That’s the blueprint. Democrats don’t see rules as guardrails—they see them as obstacles, to be discarded whenever they stand in the way of absolute power. They are openly preparing to escalate the fight to a level America has rarely witnessed, one where compromise is dead, the ends always justify the means, and the struggle for control has become nothing less than a political death match.
