Democrats Botch Supreme Court Politics. First they made it easier for Republicans to win confirmation battles. Now they’re making it worse.

Bloomberg reports:

Democrats also paved the way for McConnell’s gambit in 2013, when they held a Senate majority. That was when Democratic leader Harry Reed changed the rules to let a majority vote confirm lower-court and executive-branch appointees. That made it possible for Democrats to curtail endless Republican filibusters against nominations by President Barack Obama, but it also opened a door for McConnell.

The result is likely to be a Supreme Court dominated by conservatives for a decade or more.

Democrats are compounding their past miscalculations by making today’s fight almost exclusively about abortion. This diminishes other critical issues like voting rights, affirmative action, partisan gerrymandering, disability rights and a check on executive excesses.

The establishment's Al Hunt has some sad news for Democrats...