It's only doomed to fail because we have a strong Supreme Court. All the efforts by the Democrats to undermine this will only make things easier for fascists to take over the US.
At this point "fascist" is more of an insult than an ideology, very few people who get called "fascist" ever actually live up to any reasonable definition of the word.
> My understanding of fascism is that it is a political system that is founded on a story of lost national glory that can only be restored by a purification of the land by a strong leader
Fascism strikes me as a historical term more than a political one. Its most-commonly agreed upon definition is something like political economic systems that resemble those of Mussolini's Italy and Nazi Germany. (Both governments embraced revanchism. Both were ideologically incoherent.)
That might be the old definition of fascism; but like many words, it has been completely redefined in today's political climate.
The new definition, it seems, is anyone to disagrees with your political viewpoint and makes an effort to push back. Under this definition, it is politically convenient to call your opponent one and be technically right; regardless of where on the political spectrum you find yourself.
They don't like the rulings that the Supreme Court has made, so now they are talking about limiting the term of justices, and packing the court with more judges. That is strengthening the integrity of the Supreme Court?
Two justices are blatantly corrupt and should be removed from the court. Two more are there through GOP malfeasance, but there's nothing we can do about them at this point.
No other democracy has lifetime appointments for high court justices.
As far as packing the court, I am personally interested in any kind of reform that depoliticizes it somewhat, whether it be that the SCOTUS acts like the Appeals courts and is a rotation, or the appointed Justices choose a second tier of judges unanimously.
But process only does so much to prevent partisan political interference. At the end of the day, our amendment system and our Congress are broken. It will take something like a mild revolution or major systemic breakdowns to fix it.
Yes, because our current court is illegitimate. Even the conservatives know this. Trampling over precedent in an obviously partisan way and guaranteeing Trump can never face consequences for his actions? Come on now. The American People can only play stupid for so long.
As a side-note: I think limiting the term of justices would overall strengthen the supreme court's integrity and I think the right would agree. Or, at least, the right would regularly agree but they won't now - because they stuffed the court with cronies. Once the situation is in your advantage, surprise! The narrative changes.
It's not the GOP that is loudly and proudly calling for the court to be packed with sychophants because it ruled against their preferred policy platform...
The Dem leadership has been splitting the baby for years by allowing the ever-increasing radical wing of the party to bloviate about this without ever letting meaning legislation to the floor to enact the changes this group wants, so credit where credit is due, I guess.
