If they thought they could get away with it, they’d do it.
And they’d justify it by saying “the current policy agenda is just too important to allow for the whims of the electorate to thwart it”.
The sad thing is that they probably could get away with it. By now the Dems have huge fat files on anyone who could oppose them, assembled by the DNC's wholly owned and operated NSA, IRS, FBI, etc. I'm afraid things might get a whole lot worse before they start getting better.