With all due respect, that will never ever ever fucking happen.
It’s crazy that the '09 Congress didn’t push them through. Imagine subsequent congresses in which Dems were functionally guaranteed +2 Senate seats and 2-4 House seats from DC. Imagine Republicans being forced to compete for votes in Puerto Rico, while running anti-Hispanic campaigns at home (Republicans have lost enormous ground in big Latino states like Nevada, Arizona, California, and Texas already).
You’d like to think Dem party with an eye towards the future would ram this through without a second thought. But liberals are nothing if not self-defeating.
Again, this will never happen in the current post-Constitutional America.
I would argue some of the most radical progressive changes to the American system came precisely during periods of disregard to an anachronistic and anti-democratic document like the Constitution. We abolished slavery under martial law. We nationalized the economy under the WW2 War Powers Act. If ever there was a time during which a radical progressive could take the helm without being hamstrung by conservatives in their own party, it would be in the wake of a constitutional crisis like this.
But you’d need a radical left wing ideologue to get near the reins of office in order to make it happen. It certainly won’t come about under a Gavin Newsome or Pete Buttigieg administration.
It’s crazy that the '09 Congress didn’t push them through. Imagine subsequent congresses in which Dems were functionally guaranteed +2 Senate seats and 2-4 House seats from DC. Imagine Republicans being forced to compete for votes in Puerto Rico, while running anti-Hispanic campaigns at home (Republicans have lost enormous ground in big Latino states like Nevada, Arizona, California, and Texas already).
You’d like to think Dem party with an eye towards the future would ram this through without a second thought. But liberals are nothing if not self-defeating.
I would argue some of the most radical progressive changes to the American system came precisely during periods of disregard to an anachronistic and anti-democratic document like the Constitution. We abolished slavery under martial law. We nationalized the economy under the WW2 War Powers Act. If ever there was a time during which a radical progressive could take the helm without being hamstrung by conservatives in their own party, it would be in the wake of a constitutional crisis like this.
But you’d need a radical left wing ideologue to get near the reins of office in order to make it happen. It certainly won’t come about under a Gavin Newsome or Pete Buttigieg administration.