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If Mitch tries to ram through a replacement before the election, it’s a tacit admission that he expects Twitchy to get drubbed.

I think his play will be to move carefully at first — get the pick from Twitchy and lay the groundwork behind the scenes — and then make the big push in the lame duck.

 

Currently, we have the Worst Wing.

 

Dear news media, stop covering the US as if it’s a democracy

 

In external politics, that is, among us voters, that's the play. But in internal Senate politics, that'd be just the thing to have a Democratic majority, if such exists, to react by packing the courts.

 

Agreed on regional differences. There are Trumpist parts of every state. But because of the *%^%& Electoral College, every state's collective vote sticks at least a bit to every citizen in the eyes of outsiders. That certainly wouldn't happen if we didn't have such an undemocratic, absurd, slavery-inspired system as the Electoral College, which is one of the very few colleges that Trumpists like.

 

If Trump gets re-elected and he gets even more perverse with the passage of time, I won't be shocked to hear him just let it all go at some point in the second term.

 

Works faster than injecting bleach

AP source: Envelope addressed to White House contained ricin

 

In that case, Mitch will be banking on the hope that court-packing will be seen as it was in 1937 — as an overreach in the other direction by the Dems — and he'll be back in the majority in 2022. That's all he really cares about.

The best play of all, of course, is for the Dems to throw up every procedural roadblock possible and run out the clock.

 

Damn right.

 

It’s different than 1937. The Court is much more of a political entity now, kind of like a super legislature. And very dangerous with radical libertarian Republicans controlling it.