Assuming Democrats take over the Presidency and Congress in 2028 (which is likely), we need our own 2029 agenda to once more clean up the mess Republicans leave us.

Some things will be difficult–such as convincing our allies that we can be trusted when we sign treaties. They’ll say “Yeah, but if another Republican gets elected in four years, how do we know they won’t rip it up like Trump did with the Iran treaty?” and they’ll have a very good point.

But mostly, we need to stop trying to reach across the aisle. We need to use the legal tricks the GOP has used under Trump to just do what needs to be done and not being wimps about it.

And there’s a lot that can be done to fix our democracy without resorting to Constitutional amendments.

Here’s the main Agenda to Save Democracy as I see it:

1. Increase the Supreme Court to 13 members–one for each federal district.
2. Require all Supreme Court members to follow the same Judicial Code of Ethics that all other federal judges must follow.
3. Install the Wyoming Rule, which will increase the House of Representatives and make each House member more accurately represent the approximately same amount of people.
4. Require members of Congress and the Supreme Court to place all investments in a blind trust so they cannot vote on things that would directly benefit them.
5. Establish a bipartial committee to draw district lines to eliminate gerrymandering.
6. Make Puerto Rico a state and redraw DC to only include the federal buildings where no one lives.

Those are needed to fix democracy. Of course, there are other things they should do as well that are needed, such as establish medicare for all, increase taxes on billionaires, cut off the cap on social security so the very rich pay their proper amount, abolish ICE and stop treating minor immigration violations as if they were serious felonies, make it easier to vote, raise the minimum wage, codify the right to an abortion, and so on. You know–all the things a majority of Americans support. The moderate positions that Republicans keep calling radical socialism.

Then we can work on Constitutional amendments that are needed, such as eliminating the Electoral College and establishing that corporations aren’t people and money isn’t speech.