Can stacking the Supreme Court save the GOP?

With the Democrats working diligently to take control of everything, the Republican comeback has now begun

That’s right, Democrats. Show us who you are.

Don’t be satisfied with the House, the Senate and the White House. Go snag the Supreme Court, too.

There can be no division of power. All power must be yours.

So, carry on. Unmask. Let Americans get a good look at their would-be masters.

The wreckage of the Republican Party is strewn across Washington, and Donald Trump is pacing the long shadows at Mara-Lago, still fuming at Mitch McConnell and Mike Pence.

So there is no better time to strike. You’ve got a plan to pack the Supreme Court with four new justices. And nothing says “unity” like Democratic dominance.

Soon you can add the whole of the federal government to your grip on the culture – academia, journalism, entertainment, sports, philanthropy and now even corporate America.

As an earlier president once said, “Elections have consequences.”

With your 50-50-plus-one split in the Senate and your hulking six-person advantage in the 435-member House, you have all the mandate you need to control the court. To control all of us.

Make all of your policy fantasies come true – your Green New Deal, defund the police, reparations for slavery, the $15 minimum wage, critical race theory, soaring corporate taxes. They can all be a river to your people.

Please don’t read this as sour grapes. This is encouragement. After the Capitol riot, many of us conservatives thought the Republican Party would spend the next decade in the wilderness.

But you won’t let that happen. Your hard push to the left is awakening conservatives across the country.

And it all began in Georgia.

Major League Baseball had just pulled its All-Star Game from Atlanta. Homegrown Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines were signaling there would be consequences for Georgia’s new voter-reform law.

That law had been chiseled down in the legislative process to a rather pedestrian voter-reform measure that on the whole makes voting easier in that state.

The president called the Georgia law “the new Jim Crow,” and hundreds of corporations and CEOs are this week inveighing against Georgia and other red states on two-full pages of The New York Times.

But the expected hasn’t happened. Georgia Republicans aren’t folding. They’re fighting.

Thursday’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution

tells the story:

The weekend meeting of the Cobb County GOP was as packed as it had ever been.

... A crowd so thick it spilled out the doorway gathered to hear Gov. Brian Kemp, who was rewarded with a standing ovation by grassroots Republicans for his defense of an election law that includes new voting restrictions.

“If there was ever a time for us to reengage and reunite and fight the good fight, it is right now,” Kemp said, drawing more applause as he invoked the corporate pushback to the law that led Major League Baseball to ditch Georgia by moving its All-Star game.

The Democrats are doing what only a few weeks ago seemed impossible – they’re rallying the Republican Party.

Kemp, who seemed doomed in his 2022 quest for reelection, now enjoys a strong wind at his back. And Georgia conservatives are shaking their fists at their corporate titans, reminding them that Republicans also drink Coke and fly Delta.

There is a future after Trump, and Republicans can finally see it. With the Democrats working diligently to take control of everything, the Republican comeback has begun.

The party will be competitive again in 2022 and 2024.

And you know who understands that?

You know who knows the worm just turned?

The two corporations who are conspicuously absent in that New York Times double-truck ad:

Coca-Cola and Delta.