So, let’s say Abbott gets his way, and a Constitutional Convention is convened. Who gets to attend and vote in it? This is not spelled out. How do we decide how to apportion delegates? If it were like the Senate, 26 states with 18% of the population could decide everything, and guess who dominates THOSE.

Note also that since a Constitutional Convention could do anything from ‘Nothing at all’ to ‘Start with a clean sheet of paper’, such a Convention could outlaw any future Amendments and/or Conventions to amend whatever they came up with.

I’d hazard the guess that the Right sees this as their chance to circumvent their demographic doom. That is, they see the demographic writing on the wall, and they see this as the best hope to set their preferences in stone before they lose more majorities. Right now, they hold the House and Senate, and a majority of State Legislatures. If they continue to be the Party of White Privilege, as whites inevitably become just another minority, they’ll start losing. So, they want to strike now, while they could potentially dominate the Convention and fill the new Constitution full of their crazy ideas.

It’s a frightening thought. The Articles of Confederation might seem tame by comparison.