Facing the prospect of seeing their current congressional majorities wiped out in the 2026 elections, President Donald Trump is pressuring Republican legislators all over the country to gerrymander congressional districts in their states in a desperate bid to hold on to power.
Currently, the focus is on Indiana, where an effort to do Trump's bidding is in danger of being thwarted by Republican hold-outs in the state Senate.
On Friday, Indiana's Christian nationalist Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith appeared on the "FlashPoint" program, where he said that those Republicans who are refusing to bow the knee to Trump are "Neville Chamberlain type" figures, thinking that "they can make peace with Hitler."
"We're living in an era of Neville Chamberlains versus the Winston Churchills," Beckwith said. "Those 18 senators are Neville Chamberlain types. They think they can make peace with Hitler, make peace with evil, pet a demon, and that the demon will leave him alone."
"What I'm trying to tell them is, 'Guys, the Democrat Party is not your grandparents' Democrat Party. This is not the party of JFK; JFK fought against the communists, now his party wants to be the communists," Beckwith continued. "We're trying to get them to wake up and see, guys, it is time to fight."
"For crying out loud, they tried to assassinate Donald Trump twice," he added. "They did assassinate Charlie Kirk. They are doing everything to destroy this great nation that God has given us and it is now time for us to pull out the rod—be the shepherds that God has called us to be—and go fight."
"They think we can just be peaceful, we can be non-conflict and it will go away," Beckwith griped. "It's not going to blow over. We lose this fight, we lose our future and so that's what they just don't understand. I think they're slowly starting to wake up to it, but it's been a lot harder than it should have been in Indiana."
