MONDAY: All of a sudden, it's Florida's turn!

MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2026

Ship of state rolls on its side: All of a sudden, it's Florida turn to make a joke of its House districts. Over at the Washington Post, Marley and Knowles report:

DeSantis floats Florida map that could give GOP up to four more House seats   

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled a plan Monday that could give Republicans as many as four more congressional seats as the GOP scrambles to preserve its thin House majority.

The Republican governor rolled out his new map in one of the last acts of a national redistricting fight that President Donald Trump kicked off last year. Republicans have drawn nine districts in their favor across four states, and the map in Florida could bring that total to 13.

In response to Trump’s efforts, Democrats have gained more favorable lines in 10 districts—nine through a pair of ballot measures and one through a court decision. Democrats notched their latest win last week, when Virginia voters approved a new map that could give Democrats all but one of the state’s congressional seats.  

Fox News first reported on DeSantis’s proposal. A spokesperson for the [Florida] governor released a rough version of the map, which showed Republicans having a majority in 24 of 28 districts in a state that just a decade ago was a toss-up between the two political parties. Now, Republicans hold 20 of those districts.   

In response to the Texas redistricting, crazy-quilt House district maps have leaped from state to state. If Virginia's (temporary) new map survives court challenge, Dems could win as many as ten out of eleven House seats in the somewhat narrowly divided state.

(In 2024, Candidate Harris beat Candidate Trump in Virginia, 51.8% to 46.1%.) 

In Florida, Republicans would stand to win 24 out of 28 seats. That would be 86% of Florida's House seats, in a state which Donald Trump won in 2024 with 56% of the vote.  

In Virginia as in Florida, the numbers don't exactly seem to make sense. That said, the crazy-looking House districts sometimes remove all doubt—the Texas turnaround has triggered the latest race to the bottom as the basic concept of the search for "a more perfect union" disappears beneath the waves. 

For our money, Virginia Dems might have shown better political judgment if they'd engineered a (more manageable) 8-3 district split, rather than seeking a (possible) 10-1 Democratic advantage. But the notion that we the people are a real people, in constant search of a more perfect union, disappeared a long time ago for those who have eyes to see. 

This redistricting is just one aspect of the larger societal descent which has been underway for decades now. This latest meltdown started with President Trump's commands to Texas. In all honesty, some of our nation's assortment of meltdowns trace right back to us Blues!

(It's hard for us to see that.)

To see the proposed Florida map: You can see the proposed Florisa map as part of the original Fox News Digital report. 

For what it's worth, Virginia's proposed (though temporary) new districts look substantially weirder! These are the wages of the grasping, clawing modern Babel into which we've all been thrown.