“Protecting democracy” now comes with an asterisk the size of a campaign donor check when it comes to Democrats. We already figured this out when the Democratic elites decided to install Kamala Harris as their presidential candidate instead of letting their own voters decide who the nominee should be after Biden was forced out of the race.

Now, after the Supreme Court of Virginia struck down a Democrat-backed redistricting plan that could have helped Democrats grab up to 10 of Virginia’s 11 congressional seats, there are many bad losers on the left who have immediately started floating ideas that sound less like civics class and more like a political hostage negotiation in order to get a win instead of a loss.

Among the proposals reportedly discussed?

According to a report from Just the News, the Dems have come up with several options including forcing justices into retirement with age limits, overhauling the court, and running to the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes of salvaging the maps.

When democracy doesn’t cooperate, the left’s answer is to change course – make whatever end-run they need to make in order to get the results they want. So they’ll change the refs, rewrite the rules, and keep playing until the scoreboard looks better.

The whole mess started after Virginia’s high court ruled lawmakers violated constitutional procedures when pushing through the referendum-backed redistricting plan. Democrats called the ruling unfair. Republicans called what the Dems tried to do in the first place illegal. And the court agreed.

For a party that constantly lectures America about “norms” and “democracy,” their reaction to losing their redistricting scam felt oddly similar to a toddler flipping over the Monopoly board because somebody else landed on Boardwalk first – proving once again that, for the left, democracy is only sacred when they’re the ones winning.