One of the defining characteristics of the modern American Left is that it treats rules the way toddlers treat vegetables: tolerated only when unavoidable and immediately discarded the second they become inconvenient.

That sounds harsh until you watch the pattern repeat itself over and over and over again.

If they lose an election, the system is broken. If a court rules against them, the court is illegitimate. If constitutional checks prevent them from getting what they want immediately, then the checks themselves must be removed.

Not debated. Removed.

Which brings us to Virginia.

Following the Virginia Supreme Court’s rejection of a Democrat-backed gerrymandering effort, voices on the Left are now openly floating ideas that amount to court-packing at the state level—expanding, restructuring, or politically purging the court itself because it refused to produce the preferred ideological outcome.

Think about how insane that actually is.

Not “we disagree with the ruling.” Not “we’d like to challenge the legal reasoning.”

No. The reaction increasingly sounds like: “If the institution won’t obey us, we’ll replace the institution.”

Jonathan Turley rightly pointed out the danger in this mentality. What’s especially revealing is how quickly national Democrats and activist voices moved toward the same familiar conclusion Americans have now watched for years: if constitutional structures stand in the way of progressive power, then constitutional structures themselves become the enemy.

And the justification for all of this? A low-turnout election. That’s the part conveniently skipped over in much of the coverage.

Yes, there was a special electoral result tied to the redistricting issue. Yes, “the people” voted. But........

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