As President Obama famously said, elections have consequences. Trump won in 2016 and is president. The Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate in 2018. Under the Constitution, the president nominates Justices to the Supreme Court when vacancies occur, and the Senate confirms them by majority vote.
Democrats complaining about Merrick Garland don't seem to have noticed that the Senate was Republican in 2016, and decided not to vote on his nomination. Again, the 2014 Senate election had consequences.
As we've seen for the last 4 years, Democrats don't like elections to have consequences when they lose. They expect deference because, in Democrats' minds, they should have won. Democrats wishes not withstanding, elections always have consequences, whether Democrats like them or not.
Democrats seem to believe that Supreme Court seats are either the personal property of the justice who died, or an entitlement of the party who last filled the seat. Neither is true.
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