The Dims have a firmer control over their party, than does the GOP.
We are seeing the "Big Tent" at work. Notice, how no one ever asks for a Dim Big Tent.
Do the math. A "Small Tent" would have, at most, 48 Republican senators, leaving the Democrats in the majority and controlling the senate outright. Is that your preference?
They are doing to us what we did to them in the early Clinton years. They have to band together or they die, just as the Republicans had to band together under Newt or die under Clinton.
Our hand-wringing is what the Dims did, with one exception.
All the GOP did was delay and water down national health care. The Dims then, as now, had absolute control over the judicial appointments.
While the procedural dynamic is the same, the substantive results are very different.
We need some Republican leadership with some backbone; when the worm turns, as it always does, we must filibuster EVERY dem judicial nominee.