“the debate is over.”
As soon as one of the conservative votes on the Court is replaced by a progressive we will see a string of rulings overturning past settled cases. A progressive president, combined with a progressive court will end what is left of the power of Congress and usher in a dictatorship of a chief executive supported by a 12 member judicial council. A 5-4 progressive majority on the court will rule in favor of on demand free abortions, automatic citizenship for all immigrants, confiscation of private IRA’s and 401K’s, the end of private gun ownership, government control of religious expression, hate speech and thought crime regulation, compulsory euthanasia for the elderly, reparations for minorities, and ultimately the end of private property.
The progressive goal is complete control of the individual by the state. Secular humanist philosophy is incompatible with individual freedom. There is no middle ground.
If there really is a God (a rhetorical hypothetical... I know jolly well there is) some interesting things will befall liberals on the way to doing that.