Kamala Harris went on a livestream Wednesday night and said the quiet part out loud — very loud.
Speaking on the “Win with Black Women” podcast, the former Vice President called on Democrats to embrace what she cheerfully termed a “no bad idea brainstorm” ahead of the 2026 midterms.
In that spirit of radical openness, she floated abolishing the Electoral College, packing the Supreme Court, creating multi-member congressional districts, granting statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., and — in a phrase that stopped more than a few people cold — directing blue states to expand their own electoral maps in order to “neutralize red states from cheating.”
“We got to fight fire with fire,” she said. “They’re playing to win.”
Let that land for a moment.
This wasn’t a fringe figure on a fringe platform. This was the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee — a woman now openly weighing another run in 2028 — calling for the systematic dismantling of foundational constitutional structures because her party keeps losing elections it doesn’t think it should lose.
And here is what deserves to be said clearly: she is not alone.
What Harris articulated on Wednesday isn’t some eccentric outlier position. It is, increasingly, the mainstream Democratic wish list. The abolition of the Electoral College has been a rallying cry for years. Court-packing was debated openly during the Biden administration. D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood have been voted on in the House. Harris didn’t invent these ideas. She just said them all at once, in a row, with enthusiasm.
New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino called it the “language of civil war.” Utah Sen. Mike Lee offered dry understatement: “Well, maybe a few bad ideas.” Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch was blunter — Harris, he wrote, doesn’t think it’s a bad idea “to destroy our constitutional republic.”
Radio host Erick Erickson made the press critique explicit: “If a Republican were to say these things, the press would excoriate them. But when a Democrat does it, the press treats it as legitimate because the press is on the same side.”
He has a point worth sitting with.
What Harris described Wednesday is a Democratic Party that has decided the rules of American democracy are only legitimate when they produce Democratic Party victories — and that any structure producing a different outcome is, by definition, a form of cheating that must be neutralized.
That’s not a reform agenda. That’s a case for remaking the republic in the image of one party’s preferences.
“No bad ideas,” she said.
Some ideas are very bad indeed.
And some of them, it turns out, are party platform.
Kamala Harris is now calling for Democrats to hold a “No Bad Idea Brainstorm” where they discuss:
– Abolishing the Electoral College
– Packing the Supreme Court
– Making Puerto Rico and D.C. states“We’ve got to neutralize these red states from cheating!” pic.twitter.com/23MPJxn7fN
— Pat Adams (@PatAdams96) May 14, 2026
