Thread by @SER1897

When Scalia died, it was bad for Dems. When RBG died, it was bad for Dems. It was arguably bad for Dems when Kennedy retired.

Maybe the problem is one of strategy.

https://twitter.com/KevinFreyTV/status/1333637377907191813

Something I said early on when Democrats were whining about Republicans breaking norms and violating “precedents” that only a fool would think they’d keep: The GOP delivered for their voters and were rewarded for it. Voters don’t punish meanness.

If HRC was the sitting president and there was a good chance she’d lose reelection and take the Senate with her, then hell yes, I’d support replacing, say, Clarence Thomas with a badass liberal justice a month before the election.

Fuck your comity.

Voters like people who fight for them. This is real life, not a cricket match.

There are Democrats who oppose expanding the Supreme Court and even nuking the filibuster bc of appeals to comity, norms, etc. But they could never say with a straight face that protecting those norms would improve the lives of Dem voters or Americans in general.

How do you explain to someone who might lose their health care or who might even lose their *home* that you won’t pass relief, even if you gain control of the Senate, bc of “norms”?

Now, you might say that Republicans also talk about norms. But Republican voters understand that keeping the legislative filibuster, not expanding the Supreme Court now that they have a conservative majority, directly benefits them.

This is still Republicans saying, “I’m doing this all for YOU."

If you’re a Republican voter in rural America, DC statehood is seen as a negative for YOU. And whatever BS excuse for opposing it the GOP gives doesn’t matter. You know that they’re supporting you.