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That alone was worth my vote for Trump.

Well...if Gorsuch actually votes as a conservative. Roberts didn't. Souter didn't. Kennedy didn't. O'Connor didn't. Brennan didn't. On and on - the SC justices nominated by Democrats undergo rigorous vetting as left-wing judicial activists and they deliver - there is no backsliding, no compromise. Republicans nominate originalists and lovers of the status quo, rather than judges who will fight for conservative principles as vigorously as the left-wing judges fight to overturn every established principle of American society. And the so-called originalists beloved by conservatives have demonstrated time and again that they are not capable of even maintaining the status quo against left-wing radicalism, let alone reversing it. And in many cases - most recently with that coward John Roberts on Obamacare - they will actively abet the liberals.

I want him to decide based on the text of the constitution.

If he does that grammatically and definitionally, whether he agrees with me ir not, I’ll actually see what he’s saying in the text of the constigution.

the SC justices nominated by Democrats undergo rigorous vetting as left-wing judicial activists and they deliver

Republicans seem to like originalists who are more impressed with the beauty of their logic and the magnificent knots they can tie in their philosophy - while Democrats, as you point out, simply nominate ideologues who will vote where the Party wants them to vote.