For many Americans in the current midterm elections, it seems as if their objective is to secure a victory in order to rewrite the Constitution. The Senate might be eliminated to turn an institution designed to restrain transient majorities into an instrument for perpetuating one.
Another policy might be to reopen the borders and legalize millions of immigrants residing illegally in the United States. With expanded citizenship, a mass amnesty would transform the electorate and establish the foundations of permanent one-party rule.
Immigration has ceased to be simply a question of border policy and has become an instrument of political engineering. No one explains the immigration agenda better than America's own political stars. US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has characterized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a "rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency," explicitly calling for its abolition.
"Border Czar" Tom Homan has responded that the immigration laws were passed by Congress; if people do not like them, they should complain to Congress, not him.
In January 2026, US Rep. Jerry Nadler declared that he would refuse to fund ICE, referring to it as an agency that "acts like an American Gestapo," and in September, US Rep. Delia Ramirez introduced the Reimagining Safety Act, legislation that proposes completely abolishing ICE and Customs and Border Protection, while dismantling the Department of Homeland Security.
The third new policy would be to expand the Supreme Court in order to secure a Democratic judicial majority. The Constitution does not fix the number of justices; Congress does. In May 2026, Rep. Al Green introduced legislation to increase the Court's membership from nine to thirteen. Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted a similar maneuver in 1937 to overcome judicial resistance to his New Deal; his plan failed.
The late Venzuelan dictator Hugo Chávez demonstrated what happens when court-packing succeeds. In 2004, his parliamentary majority expanded the Supreme Court from 20 to 32 justices and filled the new seats with political allies, securing control over the judiciary. The mechanism is disarmingly simple: when the courts obstruct political power, change the courts.
Look at Brazil, where the Supreme Court has become the metaphorical armed wing of Lula's party, the living embodiment of what the French revolutionaries of 1789 termed "government by judges."
Taken together, the three measures will fundamentally alter and upend the American constitutional order. A Senate adulterated by newly created ad hoc seats, an electorate diluted and transformed by mass naturalization of illegal immigrants, and an expanded Supreme Court brought under the governing party's influence would eliminate the institutional conditions of political competition – seemingly the objective.
The opposition party might continue to exist, elections will continue to be held, and the outward forms of democracy might remain intact, but the possibility of replacing the governing party would have been destroyed.
America would become a one-party state, democratic in appearance but oligarchic in substance.
This is why the November 2026 elections are so decisive. US Senators serve six-year terms: those elected this month will remain in office until January 2033. They will therefore be sitting in the Senate when the president elected in 2028 takes office.
Make America the Next European Union?
If one political party succeeds in entrenching itself in power — as it evidently intends to do — it could take less than a decade for the United States to become another European Union. The comparison with the EU rests on two fundamental parallels:
The first is ideological. Many American politicians and the European Union "elites" pursue essentially the same political agenda: open borders, a "Green Deal" undermining of energy, complicity with Islamism, unabashed antisemitism, and the increasingly ruthless suppression of freedom of speech.
Many Americans, wrote Victor Davis Hanson, have "been transmogrified into an Islamist-sympathizing, socialist Jacobin movement" seeking to replicate in the US a political model already imposed by European elites. According to Hanson, many Americans "are only promising to do to America what socialists have already done to now-floundering Europe."
The second parallel — and arguably more ominous — is institutional. The EU has become an instrument for circumventing, hollowing out, and ultimately neutralizing Europe's national democracies. For more than a decade, policies repeatedly rejected by European voters at the national level — open borders, the Green Deal — have nevertheless been imposed upon them through the machinery of the EU. Not a single political party in Europe has ever won a national election on a platform advocating the imposition of a zero-carbon society. Yet, through the EU, the creation of a zero-carbon society has become the number one priority of the EU as a whole, of the European political establishment, and of European countries in general.
In short, the message we Europeans are sending to America is simple: Do not become like us. Be careful who you let seize power — because once they do, they will never give it back.
Drieu Godefridi is a jurist (University Saint-Louis, University of Louvain), philosopher (University Saint-Louis, University of Louvain) and PhD in legal theory (Paris IV-Sorbonne). He is an entrepreneur, CEO of a European private education group and director of PAN Medias Group. He is the author of The Green Reich (2020).
