[Vaquero]

The rub for Democrats is that the next opening on the court is almost certainly going to be among one the liberal justices. If Democrats pointlessly sacrifice the filibuster on Gorsuch, they will have freed Trump to pick another conservative and shift the balance of the court.

That's an assumption the writer is making that Trump will follow some unwritten law that says you have to give and take appointing justices. BS I say. Trump never gives in .....he fights to win....always

[generally]

I just hope he doesn’t get suckered by a closet liberal. And that any conservative he appoints STAYS conservative.

[ISTHISONETAKEN]

>>That’s an assumption the writer is making that Trump will follow some unwritten law that says you have to give and take appointing justices. BS I say. Trump never gives in .....he fights to win....always

I took it to mean, that if Democrats filibuster this one - a relatively moderate/right justice, the Republicans will use the nuclear option now because they will realize they will filibuster ANYONE; which will then set the precedent for the next 2-3 justices that Trump/Pence pick in the coming years.