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Back when I was in the corporate world, I noticed something that I came to call the "liar's advantage." The liar's advantage is this: in business, the person willing to lie will usually have the advantage over a scrupulously honest person. Not always--especially if the liar is not skilled--but usually. Similarly, someone who acts like a sociopath will typically have an advantage over those who do not. And fairly soon, everyone recognizes they either have to behave like sociopaths, or get driven out of business.
As I recall, when Obama first won the Presidency and Democrats took both the House and the Senate, there was a meeting of lawmakers (at least one that has been published and not challenged as slander) in which the goal was to plan out how to frustrate the Democrats' agenda at any cost. Mitch McConnell is on record saying that the single biggest goal he had at the time (I think this was 2009) was to ensure that Obama was a one-term President.
You just cannot do those things and expect the other side won't start living by the same rules. And the cost all 'round will be quite great, I fear.
I agree 100% with your very erudite commentary.
I think that the Republicans' refusal to even listen to President Obama's last Supreme Court nomination embittered many moderate Democrats.
In all fairness, however, I understand that the Democrats had in earlier years also done the same thing to a Republican Court nominee.
I voted for President Trump and would do so again, but I agree with his critics (those who are rational) that he is personally responsible for some of the rancor because of his abrasive personality.
Have nice weekend!