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Abolish the Senate. End the Electoral College. Pack the Court. Why the left can’t win without a new Constitution.
NYT ^ | 08 14 2025 | Hosted by Ross Douthat

Posted on 08/15/2025 9:36:55 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

After the great rebuke of 2024, many Democrats seem to think their party needs to become more moderate. But there’s another theory potent on the American left that believes Donald Trump’s election shows not just that American democracy is in danger, but that it doesn’t really work at all. What the country needs isn’t just a new policy agenda; it might need the kind of constitutional revolution — from adding new states, to packing the Supreme Court — that some Democrats already flirted with under Joe Biden.

That’s the kind of argument that my guest today, Osita Nwanevu, makes in his new book, “The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.” Nwanevu is a contributing editor at The New Republic and the Democratic Institutions fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.

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Previously from the New York Times:

We Used to Think the Military Would Stand Up to Trump. We Were Wrong.

1 posted on 08/15/2025 9:36:55 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

That would require something I don’t think Ross Douthat is willing to engage in.


2 posted on 08/15/2025 9:39:51 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: yesthatjallen

Osita Nwanevu. Great and other foreigner telling me how to tun my country.


3 posted on 08/15/2025 9:39:54 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: yesthatjallen

They tried this in France. The best part of it was called The Terror. And the end result was a military dictatorship under Emperor Napoleon.


4 posted on 08/15/2025 9:40:13 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The list of things I no longer care about is long. And it's getting longer.)
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To: yesthatjallen

What have Nwanevu and his kind bring to the table?


5 posted on 08/15/2025 9:44:17 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: yesthatjallen

Then let’s dust off the old “Union Is Dissolved!” posters, and they can do what they want in their own country.


6 posted on 08/15/2025 9:44:27 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Throw them in the same jails that the J6’s were thrown in.


7 posted on 08/15/2025 9:44:33 AM PDT by Eli Kopter (ביחד ננצח הלב שלנו שבוי בעזה Together we will win, our heart is captive in Gaza.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Throw them in the same jails that the J6’s were thrown in.


8 posted on 08/15/2025 9:44:49 AM PDT by Eli Kopter (ביחד ננצח הלב שלנו שבוי בעזה Together we will win, our heart is captive in Gaza.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Why the left can’t win without a new Constitution.

Essentially secession and insurrection against the United States of America - EXCATLY what the Left and the Dems have done, are doing, and will keep doing.

Meanwhile, the Lying Left distracts by accusing the patriotic Right of exactly what the Lying left is doing.

9 posted on 08/15/2025 9:45:03 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Democrats simply can’t fathom they are losing elections and that democracy is in fact working. They lost. Power is slipping away and they can’t let that happen.


10 posted on 08/15/2025 9:45:52 AM PDT by LibertyOh
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To: yesthatjallen

How about being American instead of communist?


11 posted on 08/15/2025 9:45:57 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

And there was an uprising in the Vendee section of France against the atheists and communards running the French government. The people fought it as best they could; Americans in our hinterlands would be much better armed.


12 posted on 08/15/2025 9:49:43 AM PDT by laconic
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To: yesthatjallen

So the truth comes out, without cheating the commies can’t “win” and for them winning means bringing in MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of illegals to make them their useful idiots to get congressional seats and power


13 posted on 08/15/2025 9:52:05 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: yesthatjallen

The New York Times has attempted REPEATEDLY to ruin this country.

They belong before a Tribunal.

14 posted on 08/15/2025 9:52:05 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: yesthatjallen

They seem to be doing just fine without all that stuff. They’ve gotten their way on almost everything.


15 posted on 08/15/2025 9:53:44 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: yesthatjallen

The Dummycrats are too stupid to moderate.


16 posted on 08/15/2025 9:56:24 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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You know, the guys who actually wrote the Constitution were WAY smarter than these people.

A lot of us here swore an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

35+ years later, I haven't been discharged from that oath, and there are more domestic enemies than foreign these days.

17 posted on 08/15/2025 9:56:39 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Michael Bennet claps on 1 and 3.)
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To: yesthatjallen
So to paraphrase the left,

there's not enough poop in the soup, its bad, we need more poop in the soup because poop lives matter.

Abolish the constitution because it prevents poop in the soup!!

Ie, there's not enough communists in control if the united states government @@!!!!

18 posted on 08/15/2025 9:59:40 AM PDT by Ikeon (Help a man today, and tomorrow he will get into trouble on purpose, because youll help him.)
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To: real saxophonist

Same here.


19 posted on 08/15/2025 10:02:54 AM PDT by curious7
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To: yesthatjallen

Why can’t the Left win without changing the rules?

Because increasingly voters are realizing they don’t *want* the stupid evil $#!+ the Left is trying to sell, and they’re refusing to buy it. So the Left’s solution is to *force* them to buy it, at gunpoint if need be, whether they want it or not.

That’s always their solution. It’s how they think. It’s what they do. I mean, consider Obamacare, as just one example.


20 posted on 08/15/2025 10:08:56 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus
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