Democrat admits that proposed strategy is just to keep the GOP from a majority, ever

The death of RBG and the likely confirmation of ACB is just a ruse for Democrats. They’ve talked about packing the court, Puerto Rico/DC statehood, and abolishing the filibuster for a long time. They aren’t trying to manipulate the game while they have control of the rules, they are attempting to end the game.

On Pod Save America, Kate Kendell of Take Back the Court outlined the exact reasons for there position on these issues:

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What do you say to the argument that this will only lead to retaliation…?

… Why are they doing this in the first place? And the reason is they know they can’t win popular elections if they are fair. Republicans saw this 20 years ago. You know this data as well as I do. They know they can’t win with free and fair elections and without voter suppression. So beginning 10 years ago and even 20 years ago, they started laying out a plan for cheating and trying to game the system. So if we were to be lucky enough to take the Senate, keep the House, and have Biden and Kamala Harris in the White House, what we could then do is all the corrective actions. It is not just adding Justices to the Court. It is doing what the Brennan Center said: giving voting rights to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, re-enfranchising people who have lost the right to vote based on felony convictions… We correct all of the manifest injustices put in place to game the system in one direction, we get rid of all of those barriers and all of those hurdles. According to the Brennan Center, if you do all of that, you restore voting and add to the voting rolls 50 million voters. If that happens, Republicans as they are currently manifesting themselves with the highest level of toxicity and ideological purity, will never be able to be in a tit for tat or a tat for tit, whatever it is, position, because they will never again win a majority in the Senate and they will never again regain the White House unless they moderate themselves and their approach to how they want to govern.

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These tactics aren’t about “restoring order” or “restoring balance to the Court.” This is an excuse to take actions with a 51% majority to change the rules of the game to eliminate the competition. This is gerrymandering the country to prevent Republicans from ever gaining a majority. They aren’t scared about retribution, because they are taking steps to ensure that the GOP will never be in a position to enact retribution.

Rarely do you hear people say the quiet part out loud, but more recently, the Democrats just don’t seem to care. You used to have to walk a line, say something moderate, and then give a wink and a nod.

Between the BLM movement that wants to blow up the system because of alleged systematic racism and blowing up Constitutional norms because they don’t like the outcomes they’ve received, this country is on the precipice. If I said it once, I’ve said it 1,000 times: THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GIVE EVERYONE TROPHIES!