Roberts and Kennedy were appointed by Republicans
Kennedy was appointed after Judge Bork was assassinated by the liberals.
And the leftists got the courts and government they wanted by demanding 100% lock-step ideological purity. The polar opposite of the Rovian-moderate platform of incremental surrender.
If ever a thread completely missed the lesson of what just happened, it’s this one. But it does serve as a useful reminder of why and how the republic was lost.