President Biden continues to think he lives in a world where honor between parties is still a thing. If the shoes were on the other foot, A Republican President/Senate would have fixed the court.
Biden must entertain fixing the Supreme Court
MSNBC’s Deadline White House Host Nicolle Wallace interviewed President Joe Biden late last week. It was right after some of the Supreme Court’s very destructive decisions, including the Affirmative Action decision, that stopped schools from including race for competent students in the admission equation.
It is clear that Biden is an institutionalist who wishes and hopes that America can return to those times. And that is the problem with too many Moderate and Centrist Democrats. They either fail to understand that Republican politicians and their fascist supporters have no intention of relenting. And while these particular Democrats continue to hope, the fascists continue to embed themselves into the fabric of America.
Nicolle Wallace asked the President if he would consider court reform after watching the rogue court. He nonchalantly pretty much said he had been there, had a commission, and there was not much to be done. He then went on to say how he picked great lower-court judges. The thing is, it does not matter how great they are, as they will be overridden by the rogue 6-3 fascist majority on the Supreme Court.
Soon after, Nicolle asked the most prescient question.
“Do you worry that without court reform, this Conservative majority is too young and too Conservative,” Nicolle asked. “And would do too much harm?”
The President acknowledged that they may do too much harm. But he said fixing the court by adding justices would politicize the court forever. That statement is dangerous and ill-advised. And to some extent, it is an unempathetic statement.
The damage that the President seems willing to accept for the hypothetical spring back of the court to a mythical nonpolitical state of sanity is wishful thinking. And those who will pay the price as the President hopes for a return to some sort of normalcy are the poor, many in the middle class, women, and others. The Right has no intent on relenting. The President and others who try to play the moderate game can do so because they will feel no pain.
This is a mind-blowing dangerous position that could cost Democrats the election. The President must rethink his position. Absent that, many will see the Supreme Court as supreme. As such, the presidency and Congress become irrelevant. So why then vote when the leader of the party that needs to support the citizenry has already given up the fight? They may just make an unholy alliance with the enemy for their survival, the ones they perceive as strong.
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