A Republican in a deep red state throwing a tantrum because President Trump hurt Tim Walz’s feelings is the kind of political clown show that makes you wonder how some people ever ended up in office. That’s exactly what happened in Indiana, where State Senator Michael Bohacek announced he will refuse to support a major Republican redistricting effort simply because Trump called Walz “seriously retarded” in his Thanksgiving post. That post, by the way, also laid out one of the strongest immigration policies this country has heard in decades, but Bohacek somehow laser focused on the vocabulary.
Trump’s Thanksgiving message was direct, brutal and entirely accurate about what is happening in Minnesota. He called out Walz for sitting on his hands while Somali gangs overrun the state and blasted Ilhan Omar for her constant anti American rhetoric. The president’s point was simple, America cannot survive if it keeps importing people who despise it. Bohacek didn’t comment on the policy. He didn’t acknowledge the national security threat. He didn’t address the welfare fraud or the violence. He threw a fit over Trump’s tone.
In a Facebook post, Bohacek said he could not support the state’s redistricting plan because he has a daughter with Down Syndrome and found Trump’s language offensive. Redistricting in Indiana could net Republicans two additional House seats in 2026, which is crucial when blue states are redrawing their lines specifically to help Democrats. But none of that mattered to Bohacek. He made the whole thing about his personal feelings. He even said Trump has ten months to “convince voters” that he deserves a congressional majority, as if Trump has not been carrying the entire party on his back for almost a decade.
The GOP base did not take his announcement well. Florida’s Voice contributor Eric Daugherty called him a child and demanded a primary challenge. Others pointed out the obvious, this is the same Bohacek who was caught driving drunk at nearly three times the legal limit while stumbling around a Panda Express parking lot with an open container. Thanks to legislative immunity he wasn’t arrested on the spot. Later he pled guilty to a misdemeanor and walked away.
Now that same guy wants to grandstand about moral standards. And he is doing it at the exact moment Republicans need unity to counter the aggressive gerrymandering happening in Democrat states like Illinois and New York. Bohacek’s vote could genuinely affect the balance of power in the House next year.
This is what happens when weak Republicans care more about feelings than survival. Democrats play for keeps. Republicans cannot afford legislators who fold because President Trump used a word they don’t like.
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