That’s one possible explanation. Isn’t there a more obvious explanation? (Socratically speaking.)
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There's a much deeper, non-Twitter-suitable discussion to be had about the different assumptions Ds & Rs have baked in around the Supreme Court, and how current events will be changing some of those assumptions on the D side. /1
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In broad terms: Rs still see Bork as the turning point, despite the Senate withholding its consent for his nomination through 56 bipartisan votes. /2
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But note the absence of attention in this story to Reagan's choice to nominate Bork for confirmation by a Democratic Senate just 15 years after the Saturday Night Massacre. /3
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I haven't done the research but I wonder how many people serving as Senators when Bork was nominated in 1987 had also been serving in Congress, even as staffers, in 1973. /4
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Sure, Bork eventually replaced Cox with Jaworski, Richardson himself said Bork "performed admirably," https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/02/us/bork-irked-by-emphasis-on-his-role-in-watergate.html …, so yes: the bigger picture is at odds with the idea that Bork was *purely* shilling for Nixon by firing Cox. /5
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But this view really misses how huge a provocation it must have been for that 1987 Senate, to see Reagan nominate for SCOTUS *the actual guy* who fired the Special Prosecutor that the AG & Deputy AG had promised the 1973 Congress they wouldn't fire. /6
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I wouldn't expect anyone to have described it this way in public, but I know if I was in that Senate (shudder...) I would have been infuriated to be expected to put this kind of personal nemesis onto the Supreme Court of the United States. /7
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They’re stars not snowflakes.
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Less self-righteousness and sense of entitlement.
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i actually think there is some kind of victim psychology underpinning the gop, so this fits. dunno that dems have thicker skins...
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