On Friday, Democrats received a massive body blow when Virginia’s Supreme Court nullified the state’s ballot initiative that voters passed last month to allow for the creation of four new Democratic-leaning districts ahead of the midterm elections.

Immediately, President Donald Trump celebrated the decision.

“Huge win for the Republican Party, and America, in Virginia,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “The Virginia Supreme Court has just struck down the Democrats’ horrible gerrymander.”

Trump’s statements carry too much hypocrisy to bear. The normally staid and proper Democrats in Virginia took this route because Trump had demanded that Texas, Missouri and North Carolina redistrict .

Trump did so to avoid the normal midterm trend where the president’s party usually loses control of the House of Representattives in a midterm election.…