Everyone in the GOP is operating under the assumption that they're going to lose the presidency and the senate. Our job is to vote in huge numbers and prove them right.
If Senate Democrats have any hope of derailing Amy Coney Barrett, they need voters in the middle on board – and that starts by pretending to give her a chance and letting her hang herself. Please stop asking the Democrats to do self-defeating histrionics just so you can enjoy it.
If the Democrats blow their entire wad on day one, it'll just cause people in the middle to ultimately conclude that Barrett is not quite as much of a monster as Democrats said she was, and we'll have no chance of stopping her.
These hearings are not about making your socks roll up and down. They're about winning. And the only possible path to winning this fight doesn't involve histrionic foot stomping right out of the gate. That would only be for your entertainment. Sorry, but this is too important.
Mike Pence displays possible coronavirus symptoms, abruptly cancels his campaign events, disappears for a day and a half, then hits the campaign trail again as if nothing had happened, and the media ignores it because it's too busy attacking Joe Biden over hypothetical questions.