“Senate Democrats simply do not know how to wage a bare-knuckle fight any more,” Jill Abramson writes in the Guardian.
Obama’s preemptive appeasement when nominating a replacement for Scalia cost him his Supreme Court seat.
“Instead of picking a liberal who would have excited the Democratic base, which had already taken up arms to reject the mainstream Hillary Clinton and embrace Bernie Sanders, President Obama opted for a ‘safe’ pick. In picking Garland, Obama turned to someone so qualified and in the judicial center that even the Republicans would feel obliged to vote for him. Or, at least, that was the theory behind the choice of Garland.”
And now they’re already waving the white flag on the upcoming Supreme annihilation of U.S. justice.
Their refusal to speak out about the full evil of what Trump and his co-conspirators are doing, is one reason why America is a rapidly “declining democracy,”
In the Washington Post, Anna Lurhmann and Matthew Wilson explain why they are more worried than they were a year ago about whether American democracy can survive. One reason being that “experts lost faith that the opposition party can contribute to overseeing, investigating or otherwise checking the majority party.”