There are respectable adult ways to oppose ACB's nomination. Two, primarily: "Hey, I don't want justices like Scalia, I want justices like RBG." Great, there's no mystery which one she says she'll be like. And "I think the timing stinks given the hypocrisy." OK, that's not nuts.

But parsing every single answer into a soundbite to make it seem as if she's open to resisting a peaceful transition to power when she's quite reasonably avoiding the invitation to engage in a needless fight with the president who nominated her, or as if she wants to get rid of

Medicare, or the like--these things are not adult. She in fact did praise the tradition of peaceful transitions of power as an achievement of the framers, which didn't stop the NYT in my morning email from claiming "Barrett won’t endorse a peaceful transfer of power." Sophomoric.