Democrats should take a cue from the generation of Northern Republicans that governed in the 1860s. Expand SCOTUS, kill the filibuster, admit new states, refuse to seat congressmen elected in sham elections, play EC hardball, pass a sweeping policy agenda. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/27/how-democrats-can-learn-hardball-from-the-republicans-of-1861-432698

“Taking a cue from Thaddeus Stevens, Democratic majorities... should refuse to seat members-elect whose claim to sit in Congress is compromised.”

“In close congressional elections, if uncounted ballots lay piled up in U.S. Postal Service sorting centers, or hundreds of people were unable to vote due to 12-hour-long lines and the arbitrary rejection of absentee ballots...

“... Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer can and should invoke the constitutional guarantee of a “republican form of government.” Make the offending states hold new elections—this time, properly.”

“Biden...should appoint judges who support a reinvigoration of the Reconstruction amendments, particularly the 14th Amendment’s clause stipulating that “the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states.”

“To pass elements of the "Green New Deal" or protect and expand the ACA, Democrats might need to dismantle the filibuster, an anti-majoritarian instrument that threatens to scuttle the expressed will of the voters...”

“They might have to unpack the federal courts and expand the Supreme Court by four seats, thus returning to the original standard of one justice per circuit..”