Over the last five years, elected Republicans have betrayed every single ideal they ever claimed to value and Donald Trump is the physical manifestation of that rank hypocrisy -- they've embraced a drooling authoritarian just so they can ram through a couple more judicial nominees who can't even say they agree with Brown v Board of Education, lol. Before that, they made it very clear under Obama that they were far more interested in partisan warfare than their own proposals and were willing to brutalize their constituents just to make sure nothing got done.

People who try to paint this as some sort of tit-for-tat partisan cold war just aren't living in reality. The current GOP is a threat to liberal democracy -- you can try and equate that to squabbling over Bork all you want but no one should take it seriously.