Starting to panic over President Joe Biden’s sinking chances in November, Democrats are starting to lower the lifeboats as the ship lists dangerously to port. One of the first they would like to send off is Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
An increasing number of leftist activists have begun to call publicly for Sotomayor’s retirement, all but admitting that they expect Biden to lose. But Democrats urging Sotomayor’s replacement on the Supreme Court forget: Biden can’t do it. It’s not that he wouldn’t or that he doesn’t want to. It’s that he is trapped between his leftist fealty and political reality. Any nominee the Left will accept, the Senate is unlikely to confirm. And any nominee the Senate could confirm, the Left is unlikely to accept.
Democrats’ view that Sotomayor should step down now is myopic. They are seeing the world their way instead of the way it is.
Rather than looking for a last-ditch Hail Mary to save as much of their agenda as they can, Democrats should instead look in their mirrors. It is not Sotomayor who needs to be replaced, but their own radicalization.
