[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

The very clear subtext is how much the Democrats fear a rule change. It needs to happen and they recognize the Republicans can do it.

Change the rule. Democrats can resign the Senate in disgust.

[Stultis]

The very clear subtext is how much the Democrats fear a rule change.

Exactly. The overwrought threats of disastrous, obstructionist retaliation are similar to those Byrd issued over the integration of the military, the integration of schools, the civil rights act, etc. Except that Byrd was even more animated in intimidating blacks than in intimidating Republicans.