If one were to gather every far-left policy prescription into one basket – perhaps calling it a basket of deplorable ideas – and hand it to the 2028 Democratic presidential nominee frontrunner, the menagerie and the messenger might be as unsurprising as it is shocking. Shocking only because it contains ideas that have been rejected by the electorate time and time again. A little like the very person now proposing this potential platform.
If you guessed it was former VP Kamala Harris, who has been touting everything from expanding the US Supreme Court to doing away with the Electoral College, you would be correct. In a recent Win With Black Women podcast, the two-time failed presidential candidate put forward her vision for America in what she termed a “no bad idea brainstorm.”
The Kamala Word Salad Strikes Again
The notion that there are no “bad ideas” is best suited to a kindergarten round table. Whether trying to make toast while in the bathtub, or 20th-century communists deciding that the state is the best organ for determining food production and supply, history is replete with really bad ideas. But Kamala Harris appeared ready to fight her case, saying:
“I think that we need an expanded playbook in a way that we invite all ideas, that we say … look, this is a moment where there are no bad ideas, a no bad idea brainstorm is what I’d like to call it.
“And in that no bad ideas brainstorm, we talk about what we need to do and think about doing around the Electoral College. We talk about the idea of Supreme Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court. We invite a conversation about multi-member districts.”
As well as expanding SCOTUS and reinstituting plural districts at a federal level, Harris also argued for “statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C. These are the things I think that we’ve got to do.” While these three ideas would certainly be beneficial for the Democratic Party, the premise that they would be good for the country is another matter entirely.
One-Step Thinking Rules the Roost
As Liberty Nation News’ Tim Donner often notes, one-step thinking dominates the left and “has in fact long been a consistent thread throughout the highest ranks of leftist politicians and pundits.”
The grim reality of Kamala’s schemes seems to be a ratcheting effect that would benefit her party in the short term and create an unending escalation that would all but demolish the institutions and practices she claims to be bolstering. If her party adds new SCOTUS justices, why would the GOP not respond in kind next time around? Should she and her colleagues bring back plural districts (which the United States abandoned in the mid-19th century), why would Republicans not add even more representatives further down the line?
And as for Puerto Rico and Washington, DC, gaining statehood, well, it would almost certainly be a boon to Democrats in terms of likely Senate seats. However, consider Puerto Rico’s economy. The people are not currently on the hook for the full suite of federal income taxes (although they do pay some taxes), but statehood means they have to start handing over tax dollars just like other states. It’s already an economic basket case, so adding more taxes would just be dumping fuel on its fiscal fire, for which the other 50 states would ultimately have to foot the bill.
Setting Up the Field
Why should anyone care what Kamala Harris thinks? Well, according to current polling, she is the out-and-out favorite to win the Democratic Party nomination for 2028, placing first in the last dozen significant surveys. And there are a lot of folks who want that job.
The frontrunner sets the pace and the narrative. If her eventual competitors want relevance, they either have to parrot her talking points or break ranks and go for a Trump-esque reshaping of the party. The problem with the second option is that the big names so far in the arena have all been in politics a long time and have track records that prove they are not mavericks ready to tear down the system.
Kamala’s festival of “no bad ideas” is about to become mainstream.
