I made a prediction earlier this year that RGB would either retire or drop dead just before the election, and holy hell has such a prediction been right yet so phenomenally wrong.
I had erroneously assumed the vacant seat by RBG would be the unifying rally call for the Dems to get their fractured coalition of disenfranchised #metoo feminists, burnt-out Bernie-Bros, readily-discarded rioters and suburban white collar Dems out to the polls and come together to ensure RBG will be replaced by a far-left activist judge.
But the response I am seeing in 1) the media, 2) high-level DNC politicians, 3) libs on FB & Twatter is, while unified, fear and distress.
Unless the left is playing a deep reverse-psychology long-con (which I doubt), they are freaking the fuck out. This was not the plan, this was far from the plan, this is a fucking snap cyclone on the boat ride to Omaha Beach.
The way I see it now, the right has 3 paths to victory:
1) SCOTUS pushed through before the election; election result irrelevant
2) Trump wins re-election, SCOTUS confirmed at R's leisure
3) Trump does not win re-election, SCOTUS confirmed before Trump leaves office
The left only has one path to victory:
1) Trump does not win re-election, SCOTUS delayed until after Trump leaves office