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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
Hearing and reading about the democrats saying they will possibly expand the supreme court if they win the presidency and the Senate makes me worried that both Trump and Republican senators are going to have a great fear-driven narrative to motivate their voters to come out, and to convince many voters who don't like Trump but care a lot about the courts to get behind Trump and GOP senators. It makes a vote for Biden not just a vote to get Trump out, but a vote to make the supreme court less conservative for decades. That will make temporarily switching teams much less palatable for a lot of conservatives who dislike Trump.
Worst of all, if the only outcome that doesn't end up with half the country feeling the supreme court has been fundamentally corrupted is the instance where Trump gets reelected in a landslide, which isn't happening without a corrupted election. Public trust in their most fundamental institutions are just collapsing.
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That was one of the things that got Trump elected in 2016. The religious right jumped on board because they thought Trump would put in justices that would be socially conservative. The problem is the justices didn't play ball.