The Democrats' Blueprint For Permanent Power

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Democrats' structural agenda (DC & PR statehood, Court expansion, end the filibuster, the National Popular Vote compact, federal election rules, speech policing) is a plan for permanent one-party control, set against Madison's design...

The Constitution supplies legitimate ways to change those rules via the constitutional amendment process and nearly every item on the Democrat agenda is designed to bypass it.

Every generation of Americans is told that some emergency justifies setting the Constitution aside just this once. Today's "emergency" comes with a slogan: saving democracy. Strip away the branding, and the Democrat Party's structural agenda looks like something entirely different - and reminiscent of the old Bolsheviki power play 100 years ago but recast for gaining control of U.S. institutions. Two new states, a packed Supreme Court, the end of the filibuster, an end run around the Electoral College, federal control of elections, and a government apparatus for policing "disinformation" are not a plan to save democracy.

The Framers did not trust majorities, and they did not trust themselves. James Madison put it plainly in Federalist No. 51: "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition." The Senate's equal representation (the "Great Compromise"), the Electoral College, life tenure for judges, and the states' control of their own elections were all built to slow down any faction that captured a temporary majority. The Constitution also supplies legitimate ways to change those rules via the constitutional amendment process and Article V, both of which require broad agreement across the states. Nearly every item on the Democrat agenda is designed to bypass it.

The Framers deliberately placed the national capital in a federal district outside any state so that no state could hold the federal government hostage. Democrats propose to undo that choice with an ordinary bill. The House passed DC statehood 216-208 on a straight party-line vote in 2021. The new state would be one of the most lopsidedly Democratic jurisdictions in the nation, guaranteeing two Senate seats for one party in perpetuity. The bill does not even resolve its own constitutional defect.

Puerto Rico is the second half of the gambit.

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