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CMV: Trump and McConnell Must Not Be Allowed to Replace RBG

 

After    Mitch McConnell said that we can't replace Supreme Court nominees    during election years, it would be extremely hypocritical to try and    replace RBG now. If a president who was elected by big margins in both    the popular vote AND the electoral college TWICE couldn't do it, then a    president who lost by three million votes cannot. If a president whose    administration was free from scandal cannot do it, then an impeached    president who lied about all of the most important issues of our day  and who has most likely   conspired with foreign adversaries while  spreading disinformation about and   questioning the legitimacy of our elections cannot do it.

Here are McConnell's words from 2016 and they all apply today:

 **"Given that we are in the midst of the presidential election  process, we believe that the American people should seize the  opportunity to weigh in on whom they trust to nominate the next person  for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court,"** they  conclude. "It is today the American people, rather than a lame-duck  president whose priorities and policies they just rejected in the  most-recent national election, who should be afforded the opportunity to  replace Justice Scalia." 

Trump, who is trailing in the polls and will likely lose a free and fair election is the definition of a lame duck. His policies were resoundingly "rejected in the most recent national election" of 2018. 

That is inarguable and you aren't going to change my view on that.

However,    we all know Trump and McConnell are doing to push this through  anyway.   What I do want you to change my view on is that they must be  stopped  by  any and all nonviolent means necessary from accomplishing  their  goal.

The  first, most  obvious  route is to pressure the hell out of our senators  to not allow  it to  happen. I have zero faith that enough GOP senators  (2? 3?) will  go this  route. You cannot change my view that this is what  would be  best for  the country because it is.

However,    Trump will submit a nominee. McConnell will ram it through. At that    point, I believe it is up to the American people to prevent that  nominee   from ever taking  a seat on the bench, even if that means  nonviolent   resistance and sitting in front of the Supreme Court by the  thousands   and even millions to keep it from happening. Yes, that  would mean civil   disobedience. That would mean violating the law in  some cases. But it   must be done. A vocal, divisive minority cannot  impose their will on   this country for a generation. A commander in  chief who is clearly   incompetent and unfit to hold office cannot  appoint THREE Supreme Court   justices just because no one in his party  will stand up to him.

**Trump    and McConnell cannot replace RBG unless he wins  completely free and    fair election and the Republicans retain control of the Senate the  same  way. If they try to replace her BEFORE that happens then we, the   people,  must make sure it does not come to pass.**

**Change my view because I don't like where this takes me. But I think it is the moral and just way right now.**
gpt
The problem with treating every single election/nomination/whatever as a life-or-death situation is that, when the truly nation-threatening event actually happens, there is no room for escalation.

You clearly aren't fundamentally opposed to a Trump nominee; you yourself admit that a Trump appointee would be acceptable if he and the Republicans win again. You also have to admit that McConnell was acting constitutionally in 2016, and, if he confirms Trump's appointee now, would also be acting constitutionally. You're advocating for massive resistance not because you're opposed to a Republican nominee, and not because the government is acting illegally, but because . . . the Republicans are hypocrites? 

History is long, no government lasts forever, and politics in democracy are complicated. Shitty, legal actions by one party will eventually be countered by the other party. Save the societal disruption for a true democratic crisis. The US isn't Hong Kong or Belarus, and the people don't need to act like it is, until it actually is.