Opinion | Ted Cruz accidentally shows Democrats the way forward - The Washington Post

On the one hand, to hear Senate Republicans tell it, Democrats are barely this side of evil incarnate. They “have hung the American people out to dry,” said Sen. John Barrasso (Wyo.) this month. They “stand for radical leftism and hating Trump,” claimed Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) in August. On the other hand, according to Senate Republicans, Democrats are also the model for the latest Supreme Court fight. “If the president were Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer were the majority leader,” Cruz told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, “the odds are 100 percent” that Democrats would seek to nominate and confirm a replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg as soon as possible. “If the shoe were on the other foot and the Democrats had the White House and the Senate,” Barrasso argued on NBC, “they would right now be trying to confirm another member of the Supreme Court.”....
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