The Useless Entrumpification of House Districts, 2026.

The Callais decision was not the start of the wave of the mid-decade entrumpification of House seats, but it titles a new chapter. Those of us who keep a watchful eye on the politics of our time look upon this, a brazen political move and having no basis in law, in two ways.

First, the 2026 election looms less than a half-year ahead. What will be the immediate effects of Callais? Of the larger entrumpifying of the House maps? How big of an obstacle does this erect for the dems to climb over in their quest to regain enough political power to place their own obstacles up against the further entrumpification of American government?

One needs only to turn to the various measures of the economy, of the state of our union, to opinion polls, to answer: the dems will be the majority in the House in the 120th Congress. It won’t be close. The gerrymandering, and the new racist gerrymanders in southern states, will not change that. They may modestly reduce the majority from what voters would have done.

The second piece is the longer-term question. How long will this last? Will it affect 2028? 2030? What kind of the long-term damage will entrumpification and en-maga-ifying do in the House?

That’s harder to say, as the dems will surely continue to seek to answer with new maps of their own, and in 2030 there will be a new census to deal with. Politics has a lot of shifting and squirming to do between this November and 2028’s election already, much less trying to see through the hazes of time to 2030.

That said, every time this rogue court lays a marker down, it is for the future to pay off in kind: by a full-throated rebuke of their rude writs. At some point, like Dobbs, like Citizens United, Callais will become void.

The uncertainty inherent in all this upheaval, this entrumpification of the House, is how the voters will react. In all this you have state legislatures of one party contorting their state maps in ways that harm millions of voters. Those voters who prefer repubs or prefer dems, now finding themselves in an artificially-colored district, will now have to contend with a loss of their voice.

Will they sit out? Try (as I will) to vote for more moderate candidates to try to balance things out a bit? Will they vote even harder for worse candidates?

In any case, keep voting. Go register if you need to.