It was a gutsy move when Trump put up his list of candidates for SCOTUS. If even one of them could be proved to be a clinker, it would have hurt the campaign. As it was, it proved to be a positive because the voters he was courting got a warm fuzzy from it.That means that :
- naming someone on the list is a campaign promise, and failing to do so would be an unforced error. And,
- opposing a nominee from that list is a problem for Democrats who are accustomed to claiming that anyone to the right of Barak Obama is “out of the mainstream.” Well, guess what! The list, which the voting public knew about, and which the Democrats “coulda, woulda, shoulda” attacked during the campaign, is now officially the mainstream.
Can’t disagree with any of that. Well said.