Something is happening inside the Democrat Party that should alarm every American who still believes in the integrity of our constitutional republic. The party’s own 2024 autopsy revealed a movement that refuses to accept a simple reality: its increasingly radical agenda is driving ordinary Americans away. But instead of moderating its positions or trying to win back voters, Democrats are moving in a far more dangerous direction. The goal is no longer persuasion. The goal is to restructure the system itself to guarantee permanent power. What makes this moment especially chilling is that they’re barely even trying to hide it anymore.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) appeared on Meet the Press Sunday morning and made the Democrat Party's intentions crystal clear.
Host Kristen Welker asked him about his call for expanding the Supreme Court from 9 to 13 seats, and he didn't back down. He doubled down, and hard.
"This is a Dred Scott court," Khanna said. "They have engaged in the fastest rollback of black political rights since Rutherford Hayes ended Reconstruction in 1877." He invoked John Lewis, Dr. King, and the entire civil rights legacy. He called on the Democrat Party to "run against this court and call this court out." And he made it perfectly clear that if Democrats ever regain full control of government, expanding the court is the plan.
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Welker actually pressed him on the obvious: if Democrats pack the court, what stops Republicans from doing the same when the tables turn? This, of course, is exactly the reason why Joe Biden’s commission on the very subject recommended against packing the court back in 2021.
“The risks of Court expansion are considerable, including that it could undermine the very goal of some of its proponents of restoring the Court’s legitimacy,” the commission said in its report. “Recent polls suggest that a majority of the public does not support Court expansion. And as even some supporters of Court expansion acknowledged during the commission’s public hearings, the reform—at least if it were done in the near term and all at once—would be perceived by many as a partisan maneuver.”
Khanna’s comments came just days after Kamala Harris’s infamous "no bad ideas brainstorm" Zoom call. Among those “no bad ideas” were abolishing the Electoral College, packing the Supreme Court, creating multi-member congressional districts, and fast-tracking statehood for Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
"We've got to neutralize these red states from cheating, including blue states expanding their maps," Kamala said on the call. "Look, we gotta fight fire with fire. These folks are playing to win. We gotta play to win too."
Court-packing used to be a fringe idea that respectable Democrats publicly disavowed. In 2020, Joe Biden refused to admit he even had an opinion on the subject. Now, it is clear that embracing court-packing and other power grabs will be part of the litmus test for anyone seeking the Democrat presidential nomination in 2028.
In short, support for blowing up the Court went from a fringe idea to the baseline expectation. Democrats aren't fighting to preserve and protect our institutions. They are openly discussing how to tear them down and rebuild them in a configuration that makes Democrats losing structurally impossible. Every piece of their agenda, from the court to the Senate to the Electoral College, is aimed at one outcome: a permanent Democrat majority that doesn't depend on actually winning a fair contest.
