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It is the nightmare scenario for any conservative or Republican: Democrats controlling the House, Senate and White House. And the chances of this happening, according to the popular online betting market Kalshi, is at its highest level ever at 43%.
It is odd to see the Blue Team seemingly gaining momentum when voters appear to think less and less of the party brand. A whopping 74% say Democrats in Congress have the wrong priorities, while 55% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning Independents are unhappy with their party, according to a recent CNN/SSRS poll.
“This, to me, just jumps out of the screen because it screams primary challenges all over the map; and it says that even if Democrats don’t like Donald Trump, they don’t like their own party either when it comes to Congress,” pollster Henry Enten said on CNN this week after revealing the numbers. “And overall, I mean, my goodness gracious!”
Regardless of the polling, when it comes to taking back the House, Kalshi gives Dems an 85% chance of doing so. History supports these odds considering that only twice in the past 80 years has the party in power gained seats in the midterm elections. And in the case of this year’s midterm elections, Democrats could have an off night and still take back the House since just four seats are needed to successfully flip power. The same number (four) also applies to flipping the Senate, while the White House may also be in play if the economy is struggling, regardless of what the matchup is.
So what would the country look like if Democrats sweep all three?
For starters, and this is a big deal, there isn’t a Sen. Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema to save the party from itself. It was Manchin and Sinema who voted against Democrat attempts to nationalize elections in 2022. They also voted against nuking the filibuster that same year. And when it came to the so-called “Build Back Better” bill, which was really a $2 trillion climate and social spending boondoggle, they also opposed that massive price tag as well.
So with that internal opposition out of the way, Democrats will surely attempt to nationalize elections again and relax voter ID requirements in the process. They will also nuke the filibuster for good to pass every radical piece of legislation imaginable.
The Supreme Court, for example, will look more like a basketball roster, with the party ensuring enough liberals are added to turn a 6-3 conservative majority into a 9-6 liberal majority.
“At every turn, MAGA judges are hellbent on dragging our country backwards,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) said in 2024 after proposing a bill to expand the high court to 15 justices. “With the help of Republicans in Congress, Donald Trump spent his time in office packing our nation’s highest courts with right-wing extremists willing to legislate from the bench. From the rights of women to make decisions about their own bodies to health care, the climate crisis, and everything in between, these MAGA judges are doing the bidding of special interests who want to rip away our fundamental freedoms. Our country is founded on checks and balances, and it’s time to restore that balance by putting a much-needed check on the federal judiciary.”
So it appears that the cure to bring “balance” is to add more liberals who would advocate abortion and embrace the dangers of the alleged “climate crisis.” Fortunately, Wyden’s bill failed, but in a world without a filibuster where a simple majority is needed instead of 60 votes in the Senate, SCOTUS expansion will undoubtedly pass with many in the legacy media cheering it on.
On another front, two states would be added, which would be as reliably blue as any current state in the country. Washington, D.C., would become a state, as would Puerto Rico. And with four Democrat senators added to the chamber, a Republican majority would be very difficult to achieve.
“They are just going to have to unilaterally add Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia as states,” former Clinton chief strategist James Carville argued on his podcast this week. “If you want to save democracy, you have to do these things.”
“Saving democracy” apparently means tipping the scales toward one-party rule.
Carville also noted that it wouldn’t be wise for Democrats to talk about adding two states during a campaign, but that such efforts around adding DC and Puerto Rico should occur on “Day 1” after safely being sworn into office.
Perhaps most disturbing, under a Democratic sweep, the party would also attempt to send the Electoral College to the dustbin of history as well in an effort to “restore democracy.”
“Our democracy is at its strongest when everyone’s voice is heard — and right now our elections aren’t as representative as they should be because of the outdated and flawed Electoral College,” Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) argued when unveiling a constitutional amendment to end the Electoral College in 2024.
Of course, these limp arguments run in direct contradiction of the founders whole point of creating the Electoral College: to give voters in smaller states a voice. Under a popular-vote-only system, no presidential candidate would ever set foot in states like Iowa or New Hampshire or South Carolina again. Rallies would only be held in large population centers like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston. Under the EC system, candidates are encouraged to build diverse coalitions across diverse regions. And a decentralized voting system is far less likely to be compromised by foreign or domestic actors.
“It’s always worth reminding people: It’s really hard for Democrats to win battleground states, OK?” said David Plouffe, who was a senior adviser to Kamala Harris’s losing presidential campaign.
So when we hear about saving democracy, it’s really about saving Democrats. They know that we wouldn’t have a President George W. Bush without the Electoral College after the 2000 election, and there wouldn’t have been a Trump from 2017-2021. Change the rules that have been in place for more than two centuries, change the course of history moving forward.
Without Manchin or Sinema to stop a simple majority from making drastic changes in a world without a filibuster, Dems have shown they will do whatever is necessary to ensure Republicans aren’t represented again.
Just look at Virginia, where Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) promised not to redraw the district map in the Commonwealth, only to do exactly that not long after taking office. The potential result is that, in a state that Kamala Harris won by less than six points, Virginia will go from having six Democrats and five Republicans in Congress to ten Democrats and one lone Republican.
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The days of compromise are long gone, as are the days of civility and respecting what the founders had intended. The power grab is already happening before our eyes. Democrats have a decent shot at controlling everything again by 2029.
And this time, they won’t stop until that control becomes a permanent fixture in the name of “saving democracy.”
