It’s hardly a secret that the Democrats are in the midst of an existential crisis. They are leaderless, fractious, broke, and more unpopular with the voters than they have been in decades. Yet, as their antics have demonstrated during the first seven months of the second Trump administration, they don’t connect these calamities to their bad policies and worse execution. Instead, they attribute their ills to malevolent forces threatening “our democracy” and see themselves as its saviors. How will they rescue the republic? Former Clinton advisor James Carville laid out a blueprint last Wednesday.
It’s tempting to write his comments off as the ravings of a washed-up blowhard, but the Democrats have introduced bills in recent sessions of Congress that would have created these states and bloated the Supreme Court.
He argued that, if the Democrats achieve a governing trifecta in 2028, they must take certain steps that will give them permanent control over the federal government: “If the Democrats win the presidency, the Senate and the House in 2028 … they are just going to have to unilaterally add Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia as states.” Carville continued, “And they may have to expand the Court to 13 members.” It’s tempting to write his comments off as the ravings of a washed-up blowhard, but the Democrats have introduced bills in recent sessions of Congress that would have created these states and bloated the Supreme Court. (RELATED: Democrats Have No Roadmap for Their Journey Through the Wilderness … and James Carville Knows It)
The Washington, D.C. Admissions Act (H.R.51) was introduced in 2023 by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC). It would add two new Democrat senators and one new Democrat representative to Congress. The Puerto Rico Status Act (H.R.2757) was introduced in 2023 by Rep. Raúl M.Grijalva (D-Ariz.) would permit Puerto Ricans to vote for statehood or independence. Polls show that most Puerto Ricans favor statehood, which would add another two Democratic senators and one new Democrat representative to Congress. What about the Supreme Court? Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced legislation in 2024 to “rehabilitate” the Court:
Among the proposed changes, the bill would expand the court from nine to 15 justices over the course of three presidential terms and would allow the president to appoint one nominee in the first and third years of each presidential term. The bill would also create a process whereby the nominee is automatically scheduled for a vote if too much time passes (180 days) between the nomination and any significant action … Under the bill, the Supreme Court would need a supermajority to overturn acts of Congress.
None of these bills went anywhere because the Republicans held a majority in the House, and there weren’t enough Democrat votes in the Senate to overcome a filibuster. Fortunately, the Democrats are, in the absence of a deep economic downturn, unlikely to win back the Senate in the 2026 midterms. The razor-thin Republican majority in the House, however, is more vulnerable. This is why the Trump administration is encouraging Republican states such as Florida, Indiana, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, South Carolina, and Texas to create mid-decade district maps that contain more GOP-leaning House seats.
The President’s party almost always loses House seats in the midterms, but this redistricting effort may enable House Republicans to defy history. Inevitably, the Democrats are accusing the GOP of cheating, including some with zero credibility on redistricting. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who presided over one of the most egregious examples of gerrymandering in the entire country, was asked on Meet the Press how he can criticize GOP redistricting when he has done the same thing. He answered, “Democracy is at stake.” John Opdycke and Jeremy Gruber, however, question Democrat credibility on “saving democracy” in The Hill:
They shielded Joe Biden from scrutiny over his mental acuity for months, then ignored Rep. Dean Philips (D-Minn.) and Marianne Williamson, who said “shielding Joe Biden will be a disaster.” They scrapped all primary debates … Meanwhile, in states from Colorado to Michigan, Democratic politicians and lawyers sought to bar Trump from ballots under a novel theory that the 14th Amendment prevented him from running for office because of his “aid and comfort” to an “insurrection or rebellion.”
All of this suggests that it is the Democrats themselves who constitute the real threat to “our democracy.” This view is certainly consistent with what we know about their history. It was Democrats who presided over Jim Crow, whose primary function was to disfranchise black voters who cast their ballots almost exclusively for Republicans from 1870 until the New Deal era. It was Democrats who imposed literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses to assure that black voters didn’t threaten the solid — white Democrat — South. And, finally, it was Democrats — North and South — who vehemently opposed women’s suffrage.
All of which suggests that the Democrats are now wandering in the wilderness because they always manage to be on the wrong side of history. This is why, in order to regain and retain power, they insist that the rules that govern “our democracy” must be changed. We need a couple of new states whose voters will vote reliably for Democrats, and we must assure that pesky Supreme Court justices don’t force our “leaders” to adhere to inconvenient clauses of the Constitution. Listen to James Carville. He says what all Democrats think.
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