The Left has some harebrained ideas. But this one may take it.
Now the Democrats’ latest hoodwink went up in flames for a hilarious reason.
Democrats Spent $66 Million On A Gerrymander. A State Court Said No.
The Virginia Supreme Court struck down a Democratic-backed redistricting map Friday in a 4-3 ruling, and the left’s reaction — ranging from procedural complaints to outright calls for violent revolution — revealed considerably more about the modern Democratic Party than any policy platform has in years.
The map at the center of the dispute was no ordinary redistricting proposal. It would have given Democrats a 10-1 advantage in Virginia’s U.S. House delegation. Democrats poured more than $66 million into passing it, winning a statewide ballot referendum in March. The Virginia Supreme Court’s conservative majority found that procedural errors in the referendum’s passage violated the state constitution — and threw the whole thing out. Virginia’s congressional elections will now proceed using the same district maps from 2022 and 2024, under which Democrats currently hold a 6-5 edge.
Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters, who led the legal challenge, characterized the outcome in simple terms: “Democrats just learned that when you try to rig elections, you lose. The RNC led the charge in court against this blatant power grab, where Virginia Democrats poured more than $66 million into an effort to lock in control and silence voters. We took them to court, and we won.”
President Trump, who had explicitly urged Virginians to vote against what he called a “blatant partisan power grab,” was among those celebrating the ruling. Former Gov. Glenn Youngkin similarly praised the decision.
Hasan Piker Raises The Temperature — Literally
The most revealing response came not from a Democratic elected official but from Hasan Piker, the leftist streamer who campaigns with progressive congressional candidates and whose pronouncements carry significant weight in the online left. Piker — who has a history of antisemitic rhetoric and whose endorsement is now apparently coveted by Democratic primary candidates — chose the occasion to invoke a phrase with a specific and dangerous history.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable,” Piker wrote on X.
The quote is attributed to John F. Kennedy, though Piker appeared to be deploying it not as a cautionary warning but as a justification — framing the court’s ruling as the kind of intolerable provocation that makes violence a logical response. In the current environment, where three assassination attempts have been made on a sitting president in the span of two years, this is not a casual rhetorical flourish. It is the application of violent-revolution language to a legal ruling that went against his preferred political outcome.
Elected Democrats have pointedly not condemned Piker’s post.
Jeffries, Kaine, And The ‘Eviscerates Democracy’ Chorus
The official Democratic response was less incendiary but equally revealing. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called the ruling “an unprecedented and undemocratic action that cannot stand,” declared that Republicans had “adopted voter suppression as a strategy,” and invoked Jim Crow in characterizing what amounts to a state supreme court finding procedural errors in a ballot referendum.
Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia argued the court should have blocked the referendum before three million Virginians voted — not after — and echoed Piker’s framework by claiming the ruling “eviscerates” the Voting Rights Act.
Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, a Democrat, took a more measured tone, saying he “respects the court” while vowing to continue fighting for a system “where voters — not politicians — have the final say.”
The irony of that formulation is apparently lost on the Democratic leadership: a redistricting scheme specifically engineered to deliver a 10-1 House delegation advantage in a state that has trended closely competitive is, by any honest definition, the work of politicians locking in outcomes for themselves. The court said so. Seventy-two hours later, a prominent left-wing voice is citing justifications for violent revolution, and the party’s leaders are busy calling the ruling an evisceration of democracy. The party that spent $66 million trying to gerrymander itself a 10-seat advantage is now the loudest voice for protecting democracy. The voters of Virginia — and the rest of the country — can decide what to make of that.
