Former Vice President Kamala Harris is back in the spotlight — and conservatives are sounding the alarm after the failed 2024 candidate openly floated a grab bag of progressive pipe dreams that critics say would turn America’s constitutional system upside down.
During a webinar this week for the left-wing activist group Emerge America, Harris unleashed what amounted to a greatest-hits compilation of Democratic base fantasies: gutting the Electoral College, expanding the Supreme Court, redrawing congressional maps, handing statehood to Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, and changing Senate rules to punish judicial nominees accused of misleading lawmakers.
And she wrapped the whole thing in one slogan: “Fight fire with fire.”
“Look, this is a moment where there are no bad ideas — a ‘no bad idea’ brainstorm is what I’d like to call it,” Harris declared Wednesday, before barreling through a laundry list of reforms progressives have been trying to push for years.
“We talk about what we need to do and think about doing around the Electoral College. We talk about the idea of Supreme Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court,” she said.
Then came even more red meat for the activist left.
“We invite a conversation about multi-member districts,” Harris continued. “If we win the Senate, which we should and we will, then the Senate Judiciary Committee should have rules that they put in place so when these people come before as nominees to the Supreme Court and lie, that they are held to account and consequence.”
“Not just that somebody goes on cable news and says they lied, but that there are rules in place to actually penalize people for lying to a Senate Judiciary Committee,” she added. “We agree that it is right to have ethics rules for Supreme Court justices, and let’s put those in place. Let’s talk about statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.”
But the line that really detonated online came near the end. “We’ve got to neutralize these red states from cheating, including blue states expanding their maps,” Harris said. “And all of this, I think, is — look, we gotta fight fire with fire. These folks are playing to win. We gotta play to win too.”
That was all conservatives needed to hear.
Within hours, clips of Harris ricocheted across social media, with critics accusing Democrats of dressing up raw political power grabs as “protecting democracy.” To the right, Harris’ remarks sounded less like reform and more like a roadmap for permanently tilting the playing field in Democrats’ favor.
Rich Lowry, editor of the conservative outlet National Review, blasted Harris for embracing what he described as a radical agenda that would shred constitutional norms. “Maybe Harris misunderstands the political moment the way she did when she adopted the Bernie Sanders agenda during her failed 2020 presidential campaign,” Lowry wrote on X, “but she’s probably reading the Democratic room correctly and the mainstream Democratic position in 2028 will be that the constitutional order must be overturned in order to save ‘democracy.’”
Democrats continue to argue that aggressive institutional changes are necessary after years of bruising court fights, redistricting battles, and razor-thin elections. Republicans, meanwhile, see the push as an open attempt to rewrite the rules after losing ground with working-class voters and key swing states.
Harris, who has kept a relatively low profile since her 2024 loss, appears to be reemerging as a voice for the Democratic Party’s activist wing just as the early jockeying for 2028 quietly begins.
Kamala wants to brainstorm with Democrats to pack the supreme court, make DC and Puerto Rico a state, and abolish the Electoral College.
These are the people screaming “DeMoCrAcY” pic.twitter.com/iVxeFe1Jne
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