Democrats’ Supreme Court threat puts the United States in mortal danger
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Democrats’ Supreme Court threat puts the United States in mortal danger
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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.
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Several weeks ago, James Carville said that........
