In yet another sign that former Vice President Kamala Harris is running for president again in 2028, she has rolled out a new slogan: “This is a moment when there are no bad ideas.” Unfortunately, the ideas Harris rattled off after making that statement were terrible, and also entirely about helping Democrats take and keep power rather than designed to make the lives of Americans better. In that sense, Harris is the perfect candidate for the current Democratic Party, for that is all it does — dream up ways to achieve power without regard to the concerns and needs of the country.
First, during a Win With Black Women livestream show and then again on a recorded call with Tennessee congressional candidate Justin Pearson, Harris called for a “no bad ideas brainstorm” that, in both instances, included packing the Supreme Court, granting statehood to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, and eliminating the Electoral College.
In case anyone was wondering what the purpose of these “reforms” is, Harris spelled it out. “I know that we have the power and I know the power is ours and I know we’re not about to let anybody take our power from us,” Harris said.
The Democratic Party has become a vehicle for a class of leftist elites to obtain and preserve power for themselves without any positive agenda for addressing the most pressing issues of the day, which are energy, housing, and ensuring America is an affordable place to raise a family.
Packing the Supreme Court wouldn’t lower anyone’s electricity bill, but it would turn the judiciary into another partisan weapon, destroying public confidence in the rule of law and inviting each party to expand the court whenever it regains power.
Granting statehood to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia wouldn’t lower housing costs, but it would trigger a chaotic arms race, with both parties pushing to subdivide friendly states or add new ones simply to manufacture more votes in the Senate.
Eliminating the Electoral College wouldn’t make raising a family any more affordable, but it would concentrate presidential campaigns in the largest population centers, weaken the role of smaller states, and further nationalize elections in a way that would deepen regional resentment and political instability.
When Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) was asked last week if he was worried that, by withholding his endorsement in the gubernatorial primary, he was risking the possibility of Democrats being locked out of the general election, he had a telling response. “We all have agencies. We can shape the future,” he said. “I’ve said this before, so I’ll repeat it. I don’t anticipate this need to be the case, but there is a break-the-glass scenario, and there’s many people that have a deep understanding of what it would look like if Democrats were locked out, and we’re going to do everything to make sure that doesn’t happen. I’ll leave it there.”
Newsom and the Democratic Party have a “break-the-glass” scenario to ensure Democrats are not locked out of power, even if that is what California primary voters choose? Fascinating, though unsurprising given the predilection for exclusive exercise of raw power.
Again, instead of working with one of the candidates to offer a positive vision for California’s future, Newsom says that if the voting does not turn out the way Democrats want, he is ready to intervene to fix the process for his party. That is the best the two-term governor of the Democratic Party’s largest state can offer.
In the talk with Win With Black Women, Harris justified gutting the Constitution to preserve Democratic Party power by accusing “these red states” of cheating.
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Contra Harris, however, red states are not beating blue states in political power by cheating but by governing better. After the 2020 census, blue states lost five seats to red states as voters moved from failing, badly governed blue states to high-growth, affordable red states. Projections show the 2030 census will be even more brutal for Democrats, with blue states losing a dozen seats to red states.
Harris calls this a “no bad ideas” moment, but what she really means is that Democrats have no solutions for Americans, only schemes for keeping power for themselves.