Consider what has transpired in the past few weeks and ask yourself which political party is acting like petulant children.

Earlier this year, the Justice Department found that four Texas districts drawn in 2021 are “unconstitutionally racially biased” because they violate the equal protection clause and “must be rectified immediately.”

Hans von Spakovsky, an election law expert at the Heritage Foundation, notes that not only did those Texas districts violate the Constitution, but the boundaries they drew in 2021 were based on faulty 2020 Census data, which had missed half a million Texans, and didn’t reflect the influx of 2 million people over the past five years.

So, the state redrew districts to pass constitutional muster and reflect the reality of Texas’ population, which, because it ends up creating more Republican-favored districts, sparked an unhinged national outrage.

Democratic state legislators fled Texas so they could block a vote on the new district boundaries – a flagrant attempt to thwart the democratic process that also violates Texas law.

Democratic leaders around the country lost their collective minds, beclowning themselves and the party they lead in the process.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries promised that “Democrats are going to respond from coast to coast and at all points in between to this effort to steal the midterm elections.” (In 2021, Jeffries called Trump a “pathological liar” a “sociopath” and a “malignant narcissist” for claiming that Democrats stole the 2020 election,)

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker proudly claimed to be providing sanctuary to the runaway Texans, “’cause we know they’re doing the right thing, we know that they’re following the law.”

Pritzker claims to be fighting a valiant battle against “gerrymandering” – in which district lines are drawn purposely to favor one party or another. It’s is an unfortunate reality in politics, one hated by whichever party is on the losing end.

But Illinois is one of the most gerrymandered states in the land, with districts that bob and weave all over the place to guarantee the maximum number of seats that can be controlled by Democrats. In fact, Illinois gets “Fs” across the board from the Princeton University Gerrymandering Project. It’s so bad that even Democratic water-carrying “comedian” Stephen Colbert confronted Pritzer about it on his soon-to-be-canceled late-night show.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey also welcomed Texas lawmakers, calling the redistricting plan “an attempt to grab power, to change the rules, to determine a certain outcome,” Healey, flanked by Texas lawmakers, told reporters Tuesday.

Massachusetts currently has zero Republican districts. (Democrats hold 14 of Texas’ 38 congressional seats.)

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she wants to redraw the state’s legislative map to “counter” Texas by creating more Democrat-controlled districts, despite the fact that doing so would require undoing a 2014 state constitutional amendment handing the job of drawing district lines to an independent commission.

Not to be outdone, Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced plans to hold a special election to bypass the independent commission voters approved in 2008.

“A key difference between the proposed line redrawing in Texas and the California plan is that the former, however brazen, is legal and precedented, while the latter specifically contravenes California law and the expressed will of the state’s voters,” noted Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen in the Los Angeles Times.

Newsom wasn’t finished making a fool of himself. In response to a post on X about how Democrats have already gerrymandered eight states to such an extent that they have zero Republican representatives, Newsom provided a list of his own – states that have no Democratic representatives.

Except Newsom included four states on his list – Alaska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wyoming – which have only one congressional district for the entire state. Montana has two, with the district line splitting the state in two.

Newsom’s clumsy attempt to score a point prompted CNN commentator Scott Jennings to say, “Trump is truly blessed by the dumbest opposition.”

The real reason Democrats are acting so petulantly isn’t because they are dumb. It’s not because Texas is doing something illegal or even out of the ordinary. (Gerrymandering got its name in 1812 from a district drawn by Massachusetts. Gov. Elbridge Gerry, who outlined a district that looked like a salamander.)

The reason they are acting this way is that – after decades of being coddled by the media, entertainers, academia, and rich benefactors – they suddenly find themselves on the losing end of political winds sweeping the nation. And, like spoiled children who’d had their toys taken away, they can’t cope.

— Written by the I&I Editorial Board

Editor’s note: Due to a brain glitch on the part of the writer, we had the date wrong on the origin of the word “gerrymander.” It has been corrected. Our thanks to the alert reader who called the error to our attention.