The Dems should play the long game
With the Republican power grab with the Supreme Court, the Dems are free to make a power grab of their own, with little to no consequences. But instead of going balls to the wall and doing everything at once here is what I think their best plan is.
The Dems best move would be to eliminate the filibuster in the senate and then add DC and Puerto Rico as states. That would make Republican majorities in the House and Senate far more difficult to achieve and add quite a few likely Dem electoral votes from Puerto Rico. They could also potentially expand the size of the House, although that is probably the least pressing issue. It would be easy for them to do but not 100% required. Then bide their time, wait for Thomas to exit, which is likely not too far off, and ram through an ultra liberal justice to balance things out. If the conservative Supreme Court is fucking around too much, stack the courts. The first thing the Dems need to do is conslidate power where they can and play the long game. There are two conservative justices, Roberts and Gorsuch that are reasonable enough to know to not press their luck too much. Secure the White House and Senate to prevent Trump and McConnell 2.0 from ever coming to power and then fix the federal judiciary.
If they do too much at once, the backlash could hit the Democrats and we could end up with a choatic situtation where more states are trying to be added and the Republicans potentially retaking power in a few years and expanding the courts even further. The dems need to prevent a tit for tat retalation just a few years down the road. Their power grab should be securing the Senate and White House, or at least making it way, way harder for someone like Trump to win the presidency without the electoral vote, or for a hard right Senate to come back into existence. Learn lessons from McConnell. He has been planning this for likely 15 years. We need to strike hard but then bide our time and pick our battles.
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