The best political strategy for Senate Democrats is to allow hearings, show up for them, and enable the Senate to vote on Gorsuch. Allow a few Democratic Senators from conservative states to defect and vote for him, but ensure that 41 Democrats filibuster his appointment. Send out a few Democrats to signal that they'd be willing to vote for an appointment of a more moderate SCOTUS nominee if Trump is willing to nominate one. Then, if he does, allow a few more defections from swing states allowing the appointment of a compromise candidate.
This sounds reasonable. Things like this kind of seem lost among some activists who demand total obstruction - in some situations it might be necessary to have vulnerable Senators vote a certain way with the understanding that the bill or nominee still won't pass/be confirmed. I suppose you can't blame them though, since they might not know if it was strategic or not.
Honestly, liberals/Democrats probably need to start accepting that we are now 99.999% unlikely to get that seat. It's almost guaranteed Republicans will kill the filibuster before 2020, especially after 2018 if they win more Senate seats. The best Democrats could possibly hope to do, imo, is somehow obstruct long enough to force a more moderate justice (or maybe an older Gorsuch-like justice, like 60+), but even that is a stretch. Republicans made a big gamble and they won. They hold almost all the cards now.
We'll see.
Wow. A dem who is actually aware of their situation and not blinded by some weird obsession with being rebellious. They should make you DNC chair.
All of these #wewillreplaceyou libs are either impossibly stubborn or secretly republicans. Doing everything you can to be a thorn in the side of Trump and the Rs in congress won't win you 2018. It'll make you look like hypocrites and confirm everything the Trump base has been saying in the eyes of the moderate voter.
Nice to see a reasonable dem for a change.
Best of luck in getting your comrades to see things your way.
