Democrats will come to regret their new standards for impeachment

Kevin Williamson:

Like the effort to impeach Donald Trump, which was underway before he even was sworn into office, the effort to block Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court was in full swing before Ronald Reagan even had settled on a nominee, with Democrats promising a “solid phalanx” of opposition to any judge who could not satisfy their various ideological litmus tests.

The breathtakingly dishonest and shockingly vicious campaign against Bork — led in no small part by that third-rate ward heeler Joe Biden, then a senator from Delaware — announced a fundamental change in the character of Supreme Court nomination hearings.

And that may have been inevitable: Precisely because the Supreme Court has not been staffed with men such as Bork, who understood the proper role of the judiciary in our constitutional system, the court over the years has become a kind of national super-legislature, one that Democrats frequently turned to for fortification when they failed to achieve their aims through ordinary democratic processes. That intensified the political character of the court and hence the political character of the nomination process.

The campaign against Bork was unusual at the time. It is not unusual now. The standard operating procedure today is modeled on the Democrats’ campaign against Brett Kavanaugh, a Kafkaesque episode during which the nominee’s willingness to defend himself from slander was taken as evidence of his unfitness for the Supreme Court.
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That follows a pattern in our politics: Democrats resort to some extraordinary measure without stopping to consider the precedent they are setting and how it might empower future Republican leaders to deploy the same tactics. The Democrats invent Borking, and the Republicans one-up them by suffocating the Garland nomination. The Democrats spend generations gerrymandering congressional districts within an inch of their lives and then have the audacity to complain about it when Republicans, uncharacteristically for that largely feckless party, get too good at playing the same game, in this case by relying on sophisticated computer modeling to perfect the art of the gerrymander.
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There is more.

Democrats have shown themselves to be people willing to engage in scorched earth politics to achieve their weird objectives and then act like victims when the process is turned around on them.  ch time they seem to be alienating more voters and making it impossible for them to engage in outreach.

They appear to be able to convince themselves of the righteousness of their objectives when they are really just engaged in rationalizing evil.