Michael Brooks Is Right, If By A Slim Chance Democrats Retake The Senate We Will Have To Prevent Them From Going Back To Their Cherished Traditions

Last week, after his great questioning of the lying scumbag, Brett Kavanaugh, I was dismayed to hear Senator Richard Durbin giving an interview in which he expressed his hope that if Democrats retake the Senate they could get back to 60 votes required to confirm a Supreme Court nominee and I was tearing my hair out.

No, Senator Durbin, the gentlemanly traditions and rules of the Senate you started out in aren't ever, ever coming back because your opponent's aren't gentlemen, they are ruthless fascists.  They broke the rules by acting as a uniform force who blocked Democratic appointments to the judiciary by plan in order to cite those traditions and rules when it suited them and to run through them when it suited them.  You're never going to get them to unlearn that behavior BECAUSE IT WORKED FOR THEM.

I respect you for your effective questioning of Brett Kavanaugh but even that proves the point.  You reasonably  called for a real FBI investigation.  And something called that happened, due only to those two heroic women who humiliated - temporarily - Jeff Flake into calling for a truncated FBI investigation.  And that would not have happened if Flake didn't know the Trump regime would have run that FBI investigation into the sham that it was.  His vaunted moment of conscience was nothing more than an attempt to get him and his fellow yes-votes, Susan Collins foremost among them, some cover for what they were always going to do anyway. 

Mitch McConnell got his fascist court by using the rules of the Senate and using them to break them, a big part of that was relying on the fussy scrupulosity of Democratic Senators who enjoyed the courtly traditions of that body.   He played you guys for complete and total suckers, taking full advantage of your hesitation to admit that the old rules and traditions only worked when the Republicans weren't fascists and did abide by those rules.   Face that fact, you are never going to undo what Mitch McConnell did in order to destroy anything like democracy.  That's where you should expend your concern and effort, in protecting democracy.  One of the things it always has needed to be protected from was the Senate that you belong to. The thing is an anti-democratic danger but it's entirely more so when Democrats allow themselves to get played for suckers by fascists.