No less a conservative than Sarah Isgur, over at "The Competition" noted during their amazing "Advisory Opinions" podcast that Mitch McConnell's machinations, holding a seat open, and then ramming Coney Barrett through at the last minute, made Democrats think they won't get a turn. She is a former SC clerk-her insight was that the left a…
No less a conservative than Sarah Isgur, over at "The Competition" noted during their amazing "Advisory Opinions" podcast that Mitch McConnell's machinations, holding a seat open, and then ramming Coney Barrett through at the last minute, made Democrats think they won't get a turn. She is a former SC clerk-her insight was that the left assesses that the right is going to game the system to block their nominees, so why not leak opinions and otherwise screw around with the institution?
I'm not doing justice to her argument, and it was on a podcast so hard to reconstruct, but I thought she did a great job of explaining how, when one side perceives that the cards are marked and the dice are loaded, resorts to bad behavior as well because why not.
No less a conservative than Sarah Isgur, over at "The Competition" noted during their amazing "Advisory Opinions" podcast that Mitch McConnell's machinations, holding a seat open, and then ramming Coney Barrett through at the last minute, made Democrats think they won't get a turn. She is a former SC clerk-her insight was that the left assesses that the right is going to game the system to block their nominees, so why not leak opinions and otherwise screw around with the institution?
I'm not doing justice to her argument, and it was on a podcast so hard to reconstruct, but I thought she did a great job of explaining how, when one side perceives that the cards are marked and the dice are loaded, resorts to bad behavior as well because why not.