If you were under the impression that a nationwide drubbing and the collapse of their electoral coalition would cause the Democrats to reconsider their long march to the left, think again. Instead of listening to the unmistakable message voters sent them by reelecting Donald Trump and handing the Republicans a Senate majority, they are desperately casting about for ways to frustrate the will of the electorate. They are, for example, putting pressure on Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor to retire immediately so that President Biden can nominate a replacement who could be confirmed by the lame duck Senate before the new GOP majority is sworn in next January. This means the electorate doesn’t want the government “Trump-proofed.” This seems crazy, even by increasingly unhinged Democrat standards, but a report in Politico confirms that it is indeed the subject of serious discussion: “This isn’t simply some flight of fancy happening among progressive activists online. It’s a conversation members of the Senate are actively engaged in … The conversations have gone far enough that a possible replacement has been bandied about: D.C. Circuit Judge J. Michelle Childs, who was on President Joe Biden’s SCOTUS short list.” The good news is that time constraints and certain irascible Senators will probably scuttle the scheme. Moreover, as the Economic Times points out, it would require Justice Sotomayor to submit a “conditional” resignation: One Democratic senator suggested that Sotomayor could resign with conditions, allowing her departure only when a replacement is confirmed. However, the idea brings challenges: a conditional resignation does not guarantee that Sotomayor’s preferred nominee would be confirmed. Moreover, Democrats are already grappling with a packed legislative schedule, making the prospect of pushing through a Supreme Court confirmation difficult. The party would also need to ensure enough Senate votes for a swift process, which may be hard, especially with unpredictable votes like that of retiring Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia. This is an accurate summary of the scheme’s challenges, but it misses the point. A conditional resignation would effectively allow Sotomayor to veto any successor that doesn’t pass an ideological litmus test. This would be profoundly undemocratic. Retiring justices don’t get to choose their own successors. Only elected officials possess the power to do so. That such a scheme is being discussed at all is exactly why the voters soundly rejected the handpicked Democrat presidential nominee, four Democrat Senators and a thus far indeterminate number of Democrat House members. Exit polls published by NBC News show that more Republicans than Democrats believed democracy was “very threatened.” This brings us to unconstitutional attempts by the Biden-Harris administration to “Trump-proof” its foreign policy failures and its metastasizing regulatory regime. Regarding the former, Politico describes the effort thus, “Despondent Biden administration officials are mulling how to protect their national security priorities before president-elect Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office in January. Whether it’s sending funds to Ukraine or imposing new sanctions on extremist Israeli settlers, an array of options are on the table.” Never mind that many voters cast ballots for Trump so he would halt Biden’s dangerous foreign policy blunders. As to the regulators, the Washington Post reports: In just the past two days, the administration has finalized plans to limit oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and to save an imperiled bird — the greater sage grouse — by restricting drilling, mining, and livestock grazing across nearly 65 million acres of its habitat in 10 Western states. Officials have met behind closed doors to wrap up work on a study justifying the administration’s pause on approvals of new liquefied natural gas exports — a pause that Trump has promised to end … The administration also moved this week to restrict fossil fuel exploration on Alaska’s North Slope, by narrowing the scope of an oil and gas lease sale [in ANWR]. This outrageous regulatory overreach is precisely why the voters gave the Biden-Harris administration the bum’s rush. Americans understand that the high cost of energy is a core driver of inflation and that our dependence on foreign energy sources is a national security problem. According to the Interior Department itself, “The U.S. produces enough domestic energy to provide for 84 percent of its demand, but continues to rely on foreign energy, primarily oil, to make up the difference.” What sane administration would restrict domestic production of energy when we rely on often unfriendly foreign producers for 16 percent of our energy needs? This is nuts and the voters are well aware of it. Yet, even after last week’s resounding rebuke of such policies, the Biden-Harris administration is moving as fast as possible to prevent President-elect Trump from responding to the will of the voters. As the New York Post reports, he has already received the highest raw popular vote count in 2024 than any Republican in history — and the counting continues. This means the electorate doesn’t want the government “Trump-proofed.” They want the Democrats to get the hell out of the way and let the man do the job he was elected to do. Yet, neither the White House nor its congressional accomplices are listening. They have learned nothing from their humiliating defeat. Long may they languish in the wilderness. READ MORE from David Catron: Early Turnout: Harris Falters Among Black Voters Whoever Yells ‘Fascist’ First Loses The post Desperate Democrats Learned Nothing Last Week appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.