Democratic politicians wail about the rising tide of fascism just to turn around and demand a fascist takeover of the judicial branch because it won’t rule how they want.
Democrats are particularly upset with two cases. The first was the Supreme Court striking down race-based congressional districts, which Democrats used to segregate black voters into Democratic districts in solid red states such as Alabama or Mississippi. The other was the Virginia Supreme Court striking down Virginia’s ballot proposition to support a Democratic power grab in the gerrymandering process.
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The result is hysteria among the Democratic Party. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said the following: “We are going to have to explore massive judicial reform, state by state, and at the federal level, and everything should be on the table as far as I’m concerned.”
What does that mean? In Virginia, Democrats are floating the idea of lowering the mandatory retirement age for its state Supreme Court from 73 to 54, in order to remove the four justices who struck down their obscene gerrymandering operation that violated the state’s constitution. Democrats could then replace those four justices with four stooges who would vote however the party demanded, and then raise the retirement age back up to keep them on the court for decades.
And nationally, this, of course, means that Democrats are bringing back court packing. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) is demanding that Democrats add four seats to the Supreme Court, where they would appoint four rubber stamps who sign off on every unconstitutional policy Democrats support. That would conveniently flip the Supreme Court majority from a nominal 6-3 originalist/”conservative” majority to a nominal 7-6 Democratic majority.
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This is the fascism that Democrats pretend to care about fighting against, by any objective measure. They don’t like the way the judicial branch rules, so they want to destroy the branch and remake it as an organ of the Democratic Party, with new justices who will rule as Democrats command. When it comes to President Donald Trump’s rhetorical broadsides against the judicial branch, Democrats whine and wail about the “independent judiciary.” Meanwhile, they want to destroy that independence entirely.
If this is not “fascism,” then what is? The moment a court doesn’t give Democrats what they want, they want to change the rules, stack the deck, and rig the system in their favor until it returns favorable results. They don’t want a judicial branch at all. They just want to get their way, and they will dismantle the judicial branch until they clear out everyone who doesn’t conform to the Democratic Party hivemind.