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The comment chain as I see it:
To which you responded
(which, is the primary comment I'm referencing.)
After a snark comment, you further responded with
Which is where I dropped my comment.
I may have lost the trail, but it seems from the 2 comments you are suggesting that the Dems aren't doing anything about the supreme court because they are trying to undermine progressives. I don't really agree with that. (Hence my response).
I agree with you that dems tend to undermine progressives.
Reread the first comment I replied to, again:
Your comment implied that I was talking about something the Democrats could do at the moment, but wouldn't, for the reasons I mentioned. At least, that is how you worded it.
The comment I was replying to was imagining a near term future scenario where Kavanaugh and Thomas were still on the court, but that Democrats held all necessary levers of power in Congress and Executive, which is what I was responding to when I said the party would be structurally incapable/unwilling to act.
And, as I pointed out, they don't need the executive. They need 2/3s of the Senate. That's just a scenario that's not going to happen.
The best we could hope is packing the court, but that won't remove the conservatives on the court, just lessen their power.
We came pretty close to doing just that, but sinama and manchin blew it up.