Elie Mystal, writing in his weekly Elie v. US newsletter for The Nation, on the rapid redrawing of congressional maps following the Callais v. Louisiana decision:

Predictable, too, has been the reaction from the right. White supremacists and, to the extent there’s a difference, Republicans have been giddy. I read one particularly risible piece of trash in National Review crowing about how the Supreme Court’s decision will allow Republicans to gerrymander away Black political power while stopping Democrats from restoring that power. I think that legal analysis is wrong. But what struck me was not the stupidity of the argument but how happy they were to make it.

That happiness, from whites, is something that most of the articles and analyses, including mine, have failed to capture sufficiently. […]

It’s not just that we’re going back to a Jim Crow state of affairs—it’s that white people are happy about it. As if the 60 years of post-apartheid America that were ushered in by the VRA were just an unfortunate detour, and now white people can get back to their preferred route.

I’m also struck by the undisguised enthusiasm (white) Republicans are exhibiting as they race to claw back every shred of voting power held by Black-I-mean-Democrat voters in their states. Giddy and gleeful only begin to describe it. They’re practically euphoric.