As others have speculated, perhaps this is the game plan. Trump and Gorsuch playing 3 dimensional chess with the end result being dems confirming him.
Hey it could happen. DiFi is already on record of liking him.
If betraying conservative principles is strategic, we need a new chess move.
Gorsuch was great on paper, but today he came out as a tyrant.
Get rid of him.
Chess here would be the nuclear option.