Democrats have left Mitch McConnell no alternative to what he’s had to do.

Mitch McConnell played a 12 into a 21 after the February 2016 death of Antonin Scalia.

Now, rather than acquiesce to a hobgoblins-of-small-minds consistency, McConnell pushes a Republican nominee during an election year to likely give Donald Trump the most Supreme Court appointments during a presidential term since Richard Nixon's first administration.

Does Harry Reid regret invoking the nuclear option to block filibusters on lower court judicial appointments? McConnell thought he would at the time when he said, "Some of us have been around long enough to know the shoe is sometimes on the other foot." When it was in 2017, McConnell expanded Reid's rule change to Supreme Court justices.

What about the Biden Rule? As Senate Judiciary chairman, the current Democratic presidential nominee said in 1992, "Once the political season is underway, and it is, action on a Supreme Court nomination must be put off until after the election campaign is over." McConnell followed that decree in 2016.

The then-vice president issued a codicil to the Biden Rule: "Deciding in advance simply to turn your back before the president even names a nominee is not an option the Constitution leaves open. It's a plain abdication from the Senate's duty." Mitch McConnell now follows that 2016 decree.

The education of Mitch McConnell dates back more than a half century.

If Republicans rejoice that a figure as sober rather than one as smarmy that even his hairline lies leads their caucus, then they rejoice as loudly that Mitch McConnell chose to play Mitch McConnell and not Howard Baker or Bob Dole as the party's Senate leader.

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