As soon as Democrats “can figure out a way to eliminate elections, they will do it,” warned late radio giant Rush Limbaugh in 2020. This is for a simple reason, he explained: “’cause they resent the hell out of [having to campaign].”
Now, six years later, political strategist James Carville (aka “Serpent Head”) is prescribing a plan for permanent Democratic Party power. And his advice to fellow Democrats is simple: “Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.”
As commentator and law professor Jonathan Turley wrote Friday:
Various Democrats have been openly discussing their plans after retaking power to change the system so they never lose power again.
Democratic strategist James Carville has been one of the most vocal and returned to the subject this week in laying out how they will make D.C. and Puerto Rico states and pack the Supreme Court with a liberal majority.
On his podcast with Al Hunt, Carville explained, “If the Democrats win the presidency and both houses of Congress, I think on day one, they should make Puerto Rico [and] D.C. a state, and they should expand the Supreme Court to 13. F— it. Eat our dust.”
Notably, this week, New Jersey just elected a radical new member, Analilia Mejia, who ran on packing the Court and other radical agenda items.
While some of us have written about the expansion of the Court, these politicians and pundits are pushing for the packing, not just gradual expanding, of the Court. However, Carville (curiously on a national podcast) seriously suggested that Democrats should keep the plan quiet: “Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it.”
Notable here is that Carville is, by all appearances, no socialist à la Zohran Mamdani or Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC). He rose to prominence in the 1990s as the chief strategist for ex-president Bill Clinton, who campaigned as a “moderate.” Carville has in more recent times also inveighed against the Democrats’ wokeness. (He does seem genuinely irritated by it, too. What troubles him most, however, may be that embracing lunacy threatens their power.) In other words, Carville’s advocacy of one-party Democratic rule — achieved by hook or by crook — strongly indicates that it isn’t just a fringe position but has institutional Democratic support.
Notable as well is that Turley is no bomb thrower. Rather, he’s a mild-mannered, circumspect, sober academic. But he sees the writing on the wall.
Only Can Miss It With Eyes Wide Shut
And, boy, that writing is now in neon. To better understand the impetus for this, too, a couple of factors must be grasped.
First, and as evidenced by the Democrats openly embracing socialism, the party is more radical than ever. Second, Democrats have for years now accused President Donald Trump of wanting to “end democracy,” of having “dictator” designs.
They’re projecting all the way, of course. But this nonetheless serves as a pretext and provides a handy rationalization (for those requiring one). The “other side” has already tried to arrogate total power to themselves, is the thinking. So Democrats might as well beat them to the punch. Trump has already sought authoritarian control, they reason, and it’s better they have it than some benighted MAGA mouth-breather. So they’re actually performing a national service: They’re ensuring that Nazis™ can never seize control — by seizing it themselves first. Why, Democrats deserve thanks and praise!
This isn’t the first we’ve heard of these anti-American, authoritarian aims, either. As Turley informed on November 10, 2025, that week,
Democratic luminaries discussed plans to retake power and then fundamentally change the constitutional system to guarantee they will never have to give it up again.
… [For example, former] Attorney General Eric Holder was telling anyone who would listen this week, suggesting that once Democrats take control, they intend to keep it permanently.
The message was clear, Turley added:
[T]he court, as we know it, has got to go. While some on the left are questioning the very need for a Supreme Court or calling for it to be simply defied or “dissolved,” others want it to be stacked with political activists, like some state supreme courts are.
This has been prescribed from the hallowed halls of academia, too. As Turley also pointed out:
Years ago, Harvard professor Michael Klarman laid out a radical agenda to change the system to guarantee Republicans “will never win another election.” However, he warned that “the Supreme Court could strike down everything I just described.” Therefore, the court must be packed in advance to allow these changes to occur.
Obviously, this goal has nothing to do with constitutional adherence or achieving justice. Rather, establishment Democrats want Ketanji Brown Jackson-like justices to dominate the SCOTUS bench. They want lap-dog jurists who’ll reliably and happily rubber stamp an extremist left-wing agenda.
As for Puerto Rico and D.C. statehood, this would guarantee four more radical, hard-left Democratic senators in Congress. This, along with continued electorate manipulation via (im)migration and indoctrination, would basically guarantee perpetual Democratic Senate control.
It Gets Worse
Yet this isn’t enough for some leftists — they want to abolish the Senate altogether. Mamdani and AOC’s group, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), pushed this back in 2014.
Oh, approximately 250 DSA members hold public office countrywide.
The Nation and late Congressman John Dingell (D-Mich.) also advocated Senate abolishment. The gripe?
The body is “undemocratic,” the cultural devolutionaries complain, because states’ representation doesn’t reflect population.
Moreover, some left-wingers go further still. They’ve called for the complete rewriting — or even scrapping — of the Constitution. The problem?
A generation ago already, president-to-be Barack Obama complained that the document constrains government and only guarantees “negative rights.” The real issue:
The Constitution, and to an extent the Senate, is a firewall against radical, revolutionary, left-wing change. It makes it harder to transform the Republic into a neo-Marxist/fascist state.
Returning to Carville, one could wonder what makes such a man tick. He’s quite an old fellow, being 81, and wouldn’t be wielding the power he’s endeavoring to win for his party. Why, Carville wouldn’t likely even be invited to the party.
That is, the regime he’d ignorantly visit on us wouldn’t have much use for a raging old codger. (Carville’s other nickname is “the Ragin’ Cajun.”) Note here that many younger, “cutting-edge” leftists already consider the man outdated and irritating. Among them, too, are people such as ex-Bernie Sanders staffer Kyle Jurek. He wanted to “force” Carville’s ex-bosses, the Clintons, “to kill themselves.”
“For liberals, it’s the gulag,” Jurek hissed, referencing his socialist revolution’s aftermath. “Liberals get the wall first.”
Uh, yeah, he’s talkin’ ’bout you, Jimmy.
Anyway, the writing is on the wall. Carville famously crafted Clinton’s ’90s campaign slogan, “It’s the economy, stupid.” Well, one way voters can really earn the “stupid” title is by empowering today’s megalomaniacal, Soviet-style Democrats.
