Democrats Supreme Court threat puts the United States in mortal danger

In 2016, the conservative writer Michael Anton made a galvanizing case for Donald Trump in his famous essay “The Flight 93 Election,” arguing that the stakes in the presidential contest between Trump and Hillary Clinton were existential.His contention that a Clinton win would cement Democratic electoral dominance forever — such that Republicans needed to charge the cockpit or die — was implausible at the time, and seems more so in retrospect. If Hillary had won in 2016, in all likelihood she would have been gone in 2020, washed away by the pandemic just like Trump was.This time, though, really might be different.Democrats are now seriously contemplating measures that wouldn’t have occurred to Hillary Clinton circa 2016. Endorsing some version of Supreme Court packing, or “court reform” as Democrats insist on calling it, is becoming orthodoxy among mainstream Democrats. Several weeks ago, James Carville said that Democrats should pack the court and add the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico as states in 2028 if they get unified control of Washington. Immediate past Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, who has some chance of winning the 2028 Democratic nomination, associated herself with the same ideas.She added abolishing the Electoral College to the list. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who easily could be the Speaker of the House next year, has said: “In the new Congress, we’re going to have to do something about this Supreme Court, and let me be very clear: Everything is on the table.”Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, has fashioned a reason why the Supreme Court needs to be expanded by four justices (supposedly, the number of justices should match the number of federal circuit courts of appeal at 13).If all these ideas were to become consensus Democratic agenda items in 2028, they would constitute one of the most radical political platforms of a major political party in American history. ...