Given the extent to which the GOP has delegitimized itself, it would be far more legitimatizing to pass legislation without any Republican votes. We shouldn't want fascist support. In much the same way, a scientist shouldn't want a flat-earther validating their dissertation.
Or to restate slightly differently, we've reached a point where Republicans have so degraded themselves that bipartisanship would harm the legitimacy of a bill for anybody who cares about decency, equality, fairness, rule of law, or shared reality based on empirical proof.
I'd feel the same way about a Voting Protection bill that had received broad Republican support as I would about one that was being backed by the KKK.
As such, I don't think there would be a better sign for our future survival—as a democracy, a country, and a species—than a long series of bills vigorously opposed by 100% of Republicans and signed into law despite their worst efforts and their loud outrage.
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