The Democrats are more dangerous than ever – UnHerd

But that danger to America s electoral system only makes the Democrats focus on the largely unrelated question of voting rights and their overblown rhetoric of voter suppression and Jim Crow 2.0 more baffling, and less excusable. Instead of tailoring their pro-democracy agenda to the dangers that surround post-election certification, the party is ploughing ahead with a bill that would federalise voting rules in response to some mostly inane changes at a state level.

Elsewhere, Democrats want to overturn the rules that govern the Senate and, if Warren is anything to go by, take the extraordinary step of rebalancing the Supreme Court simply because progressives aren t satisfied by its current composition. As the centre-left commentator Matthew Yglesias has observed, Democrats certainly aren t acting as though they believe that the future of democracy is in peril. If they did, they d surely shelve party-political concerns and build as broad a coalition as possible to combat the Trumpist threat.

The dark irony of the Democrats predicament is that they could end up being right for the wrong reasons. There s a chance, after all, that the failure of Build Back Better really is bad news for American democracy but only because it radicalises their own side.

via unherd.com