Where Potemkin Kamala’s catchphrase “What can be, unburdened by what has been” is bumpersticker platitude covering up a vapid intellect, leftwing Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of Berkeley Law School, embraces its Maoist emanations and wishes to unburden us of the Constitution.

Erwin is quite clear that in order to SaVE dEMoCraCy™ we must get rid of the Four Olds and that most definitely includes The Constitution.

Chemerinsky appeared on “Morning Joe” to discuss “increasingly problematic” constitutional provisions that he believed were “undermining democracy.” Chemerinsky cited the equal representation of states in the U.S. Senate and lifetime tenure for Supreme Court justices as provisions that could bring about secession during the interview that promoted his new book, “No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States.”

“Choices that were made in adapting the Constitution have come to haunt us,” Chemerinsky told “Morning Joe” co-host Willie Geist. “The Electoral College increasingly is choosing the president who lost the popular vote. Two senators per state is undermining democracy. In the last session of Congress, there were 50 Democratic senators and 50 Republican senators, but the 50 Democratic senators represented 42 million people.”

Chemerinsky is no dumb bunny who failed his way into high positions because kneepads and connections. So his outright rejection of Federalism because the Constitution is OLD OLD OLD …

“Isn’t it absurd that we’re governed in 2024 by a Constitution written in 1787 for a small agrarian, slave-owning society?”

… written by people too pale, too rural and of course some of them owned slaves …

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… is duplicitous.

Indeed, Chemerinsky (2:45 mark) claims that the mere charge that our nation is polarized (IOW, people disagree) is, itself, a threat to democracy along with decline in confidence in government.

No, this is not a threat to democracy. Erwin knows this. That the cultural hegemony of the radical Left over the last 50 years has reached a point where a significant percentage of normal citizens have had enough is what Chemerinsky is worried about. As long as the Left controls the government, how dare you not pledge fealty to it? How dare you disagree with Your Betters in the DC Mandarin class? Because, let’s face it, ridding the nation of the Electoral College and The Senate is about erasing all state boundaries, laws and cultures, and having a nation run on whatever Los Angeles or New York City desires or finds acceptable.

Karma came for Chemerinsky when he and his wife were mugged in their own home by radical students, but it looks like he decided it was a small price to pay to keep his Leftwing feverdreams intact.

Erwin’s strange mixture of smugness and faux lamentations about the drift to authoritarianism is particularly ironic when the Biden-Harris administration (with the Obama one before it) have engaged in enforced censorship of social media, lawfare against political opponents and a two-tiered justice system based on the political beliefs of the accused. Erwin would have us all unburdened by the past where the Constitution is a document to constrain Government rather than a license to tell citizens what they can or cannot do.

Chemerinsky sees what can be for the United States of America where “states” is no more indicative of the relationship between government and citizen than what the subjects of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have with theirs.

Remember in November.

featured image, original graphic by Darleen Click