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People are realizing today that Trump’s opportunity to replace Kennedy is the product of multiple Democratic miscalculations, starting with Harry Reid nuking the filibuster for lower-court nominees five years ago and continuing through Chuck Schumer’s decision last year to filibuster Gorsuch with no hope of success. Both errors were egged on by the Democratic base. Liberals were indignant at GOP obstruction of Obama’s nominees in 2013 and furious at Trump and Neil Gorsuch for snatching away Merrick Garland’s opportunity to flip Scalia’s seat.
You can understand why Reid and Schumer caved. But in the end, that’s a failure of leadership. It’s up to them to see the big picture strategically and explain to the left when it’s acting self-destructively because it’s spoiling for a fight.
But then, neither party’s leadership is very good at that, as we might recall from the 2011 debt-ceiling and 2013 shutdown fiascos.
Anyway. Schumer’s miscalculation is getting all the attention this afternoon. But there’s another miscalculation with even more momentous consequences potentially that should be noted, isn’t there?
Maya Sen
@maya_sen
Unpopular opinion 1: I get liberal prayers for Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s health, but, guys, she really can’t help you as part of a 4-5 minority.
Unpopular opinion 2: Her choice not to strategically retire under Obama made her a cool & hip lady but was actually very bad for liberals.
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The Notorious RBG’s legacy now depends upon her good health for the next two years at a minimum and potentially for the next six years. She could have folded during the Obama era and given O the chance to let Merrick Garland fill her seat instead. (Irony: Because Garland is a bit — a bit — more centrist than Ginsburg herself, liberals probably would have hated the pick in that case.)
Stephen Breyer, who’ll turn 80 in less than two months, could have done the same thing. Now there’s an outside chance that Trump will appoint not only Kennedy’s successor but their successors as well, producing a 7-2 Republican stranglehold on the Court that will ensure a right-wing majority for another generation. Why didn’t Ginsburg and Breyer quit when they had the chance to have liberals replace them? Read more
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