As we watch people splitting hairs, switching sides, charging hypocrisy, remember that this is what it's always really been about, no less now than in 2016: latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/… 
I know messaging matters in politics, but it's not my job to prop up messaging that disintegrates should roles be reversed, like 2016's #WeNeedNine and 2020's #HonorHerFinalWords (or whatever the hashtag will become), even if they're reacting to opponents' first-strike bad faith.
These SCOTUS fights, like most all politics, are all about power, whether to be used for good or ill for our democracy. And I'd prefer our politicians to be honest about that. Indeed, it's a journalist's job to cut through the workshopped messaging and demand they be.
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