Do it. Who cares about precedent, the Democrats will do it anyway once they regain power. The ends justifies the means, that is the reality of the situation we’re now in.
The means are the end.
Bingo! That reality includes the fact our voting base is diminishing thanks to the education system, the MSM, the "artists" and executives in the entertainment industry, the RINO's and our easily-rigged-at-the-state-level election systems.
(And I am an optimist by nature.)