“Give House Democrats an ounce of power, and they’ll use every bit of it to fundamentally transform America into an unrecognizable socialist hellscape,” said Mi

“Give House Democrats an ounce of power, and they’ll use every bit of it to fundamentally transform America into an unrecognizable socialist hellscape,” said Mike Marinella, a spokesman for the House Republicans’ campaign arm. I don't support expanding the Supreme Court, but quotes like this give me pause. This kind of scorched-earth campaigning has given us an increasingly partisan Supreme Court, which in turn seems to want to entrench partisanship in Congress. It's not great to be in a position to say "We need to reduce partisanship, so put my party in charge of doing that". But when the other party has become so blatantly delusional and paranoid, I don't see any alternative. I still don't want to expand the Supreme Court just to try to restore partisan balance. If Republicans would just bring down the temperature a bit, I think the question would go away on its own. As it is, scorched-earth policies receive scorched-earth responses.