I respect David, but disagree w/ his conclusion. There is *zero* comparison between the GOP exercising clear constitutional prerogative, while adhering to strong historical norms/precedent...and Dems’ deeply radical threatened power grabs like *adding SCOTUS & Senate seats.* https://twitter.com/davidafrench/status/1308122617916911620

Also, some of these proposed “bargains” I keep reading about are very strange to me — and I was a big Gang of 14 guy back in like ‘05. I like to find off-ramps and seriously consider reasonable compromises. I’ve been called a squish etc...

But “if you don’t fill a SCOTUS seat in a fully authorized & heavily precedented manner, we won’t...blow up multiple longstanding institutions with radical power grabs” isn’t a “deal.” It’s extortion...

If Trump said, “if you let me replace RBG without a big fight, I’ll agree to totally respect the election results & not urge my supporters to take to the streets if I lose,” how would Democrats react to that proposed “compromise”?

Finally, this moment cannot be accurately analyzed without the crucial context of decades of bare-knuckled Democratic escalations. De-escalation must start with the aggressors, who are now — surprise! — flirting with new, wild-eyed escalations: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2017/04/04/unprecedented-make-senate-democrats-pay-for-their-toxic-partisanship-n2308081