It will be of a piece with every right wing power grab since Bush v Gore, including the Garland blockade itself, and the answer should not be for liberals to be shocked, shocked by the unfairness of it all, but to resolve to use power in turn to set things right.
Trump broke the law and betrayed the country to win the election despite losing the popular vote. George W. Bush lost the popular vote, and only won the electoral college with the corrupt interference of his brother and SCOTUS.
The case for neutralizing the GOP theft of the courts for the sake of a rising generation that completely rejects their jurisprudence couldn't be stronger.
The central arguments for impeaching Trump are inclusive of his actual crimes, but an important tangential argument is that congressional Democrats need to be made to use power in ways they're uncomfortable with to prime them for what will be demanded of them in 2021 if they win.
The message to McConnell should not be "but you'll tear the country apart!"–a consequence he couldn't care less about, and may actually excite him–it's "to quote Brett Kavanaugh, 'what goes around, comes around.'"
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