You're getting over your skis here, Bro. Here's the problem with your logic. The Supreme Court has been largely hostile to cultural conservatives for all of my lifetime, all of my parents' lifetime, and certainly the entire adult lives of my grandparents - basically since the mid to late 1930s. If anyone could have reasonably been tempted to pack the Court, it has been social conservatives. However, when Nixon, Reagan, the Bushes, and Trump have been President (and therefore would have had the power to appoint justices), I don't remember any significant effort from the Right to pack the Court. In fact, I've never heard any conservative speak of it in anything but overwhelmingly negative terms - even when they've had the power to do it.
For the first time since the mid to late 1930s, the cultural Left is looking at the prospect of having a Court that at least isn't willing to tip the scales of justice in their favor. They might actually think that "equal protection" applies to everybody (meaning no affirmative action and no racially segregating "safe spaces"). They might think that "interstate commerce" will actually require that there be commerce and that it be interstate in nature before the federal government can act under the interstate commerce clause. They might look at the Constitution, see no mention or even hint at abortion (specifically or generally) and therefore no basis to disrupt the general jurisdiction of state governments (and therefore overturn Roe). In the face of losing their power over the judiciary for the first time in 3 generations, the Left is willing to completely eliminate the legitimacy of the federals courts. That's really bad. Like I said before, it was enough to make me overlook all the stupid Tweets from the toilet, all the deficit spending, all the rhetorical sloppiness and chaos, "the wall," all the toxicity on our brand, etc. and eat the turd sandwich.
And like I mentioned to NJLonghorn, the Right has FAR more to lose by not controlling the Court than the Left does, because the conservative justices largely respect states rights on social issues. If the Right takes over the Court, social leftists have to retreat to their state capitols to force their agenda, but they can still force their agenda. They just don't get to be busybodies anymore and force one-size-fits-all policy against the will of people in other states from an unelected branch of government. If the Left takes over the Court, social conservatives are completely ******. They have no remedy anywhere. So they actually have much greater cause to pack the Court. In spite of that, they've never threatened to do so.
So would the Right pack the Court? Almost certainly not. Now, if the Left does it this time, will they the next time they gain power? Oh, hell yes. They'd be stupid not to.
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