Dem strategist urges Dems to take "more radical steps" to retake control, pack Supreme Court

Political scientist David Faris says it's time for Democrats to take far more radical steps than they have so far been willing to take to win the presidency and control of Congress.  Two of the steps he's pushing are splitting up California into separate states, and granting statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington D.C.

Faris wants to split California into seven--yes, seven--states, which he says would give Democrats at least 12 more senators, which helps with control and with electoral-college votes.  He says he doesn't think the architects of the Constitution anticipated a state like California with 38 million people, while "a bunch of states like the Dakotas and Wyoming and Vermont and Delaware have very small populations."  He claimed this was...wait for it...unfair to citizens of high-population states.  "It’s absurd that California and Delaware should have the same number of senators," he said.

Ah.  So yet another Democrat asshole who doesn't agree with the way the Founders wrote the Constitution.  And is determined to find a way to remedy what he doesn't like, without bothering with that pesky, unfair amendment process.

He proposes to fix this unfair situation by splitting up California, which, he insisted, would be relatively easy to do.  He admits this would have to be accepted by Congress, but sees that as a slam-dunk once Democrats take control again.

Faris also supports granting statehood to both D.C. and Puerto Rico. Tellingly, he says "Both states have held referenda that endorsed statehood." he said.  He brags that this would send four more Democrats into the Senate, and probably an all-Democratic congressional delegation from Puerto Rico too.

In addition, Faris recommends that the next Democrat president should pack the Supreme Court with additional activist judges.

Uh...didn't a Democrat president already try that?  FDR, maybe?  How'd that work out?

No one has asked Faris, who said it's "not unprecedented" to have more than nine justices.  Except that FDR's move was rejected.  But technically it's "not unprecedented."

Faris said Democrats needed to heed his calls for more extreme political action because we've reached a "very dangerous moment" in American history. "There's been a massive erosion of trust in public institutions and in the broader electoral process," he said. "The Trump administration has been disastrously disruptive to the norms of our political culture."

Read that last sentence again: "The Trump administration has been disastrously disruptive to the norms of our political culture."  And yet this guy wants to find ways for the Dems to end-run the core provisions of the Constitution.  The complete lack of self-awareness is strong in this guy.

As it is in all Democrats, socialists, Leftists and "progressives."