Democrats love to talk about “defending democracy” – right up until voters start making choices they don’t like. Then suddenly, the rules need tweaking, the process needs “fixing,” and the outcome needs a little…guidance.
We saw this play out when the powers-that-be decided they didn’t want Joe Biden to run against Trump in 2024. After voters had already gone through the primary process (more than 14 million Dems voted for Biden), the party elites swapped in Kamala Harris at their convention after forcing Biden out of the race – cutting the public out of the final decision and leaving insiders to settle things behind the scenes. Yes, for the Dems, democracy works best when it’s carefully managed.
Democracy, in the Democrats’ playbook, doesn’t mean letting the chips fall where they may. In their world, it’s a controlled process – one where outcomes are nudged, filtered, or outright redirected if voters don’t land where party leaders think they should. They believe decisions should drift upward to party elites – the ones they think should be calling the shots. And they’ve come up with plenty of creative ways to lock in a win — whether it’s on the national stage or within their own party ranks.
That mindset isn’t just theoretical – it’s showing up in policy decisions across the country. Take Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger in Virginia. She just signed legislation [1] to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, a move that could award the state’s electoral votes based on the national outcome – not just how Virginians actually vote.
In plain English: states that sign on to the compact hand over all of their electoral votes to whoever wins the most votes nationwide – even if the majority of voters in their own state chose someone else. In other words, what people in that state vote for won’t matter in the final outcome.
Democrats’ push for the National Popular Vote Compact [2] isn’t happening in a vacuum – it comes after years of consistently winning the national popular vote. Shocking, right?! Over the past two decades, Democrats have come out on top in four of the last six presidential elections when it comes to raw vote totals. That track record helps explain why they’re eager to shift the rules toward a system that rewards the nationwide vote instead of state-by-state outcomes.
And we’re not just talking about presidential elections when it comes to Democrats trying to change things. Virginia Democrats and Leftists in other states have also pushed aggressive redistricting efforts (whether by the rules or not) – moves critics say tilt the playing field before voters even show up.
So when Democrats start talking about “protecting democracy,” it’s usually a good sign the rulebook is about to get a rewrite. Funny how the system only seems broken when voters don’t cooperate – and somehow, the “fix” always tilts the outcome back in their favor. But let’s just call it what it is: cheating.