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Originally Posted by driveway
You're wrong, and you know you're wrong. You're being, as Andy Dufresne put it, 'obtuse.'
Democrats are not 'flip-flopping.' In February of 2016, Democrats nominated a Supreme Court Justice. Republicans decided it was inappropriate to nominate a Justice in an election year. Democrats were ultimately forced to accept this precedent-setting decision by the Republicans.
Having accepted precedent, Democrats are now simply asking Republicans to live up to their own standards.
You are playing semantic games with the word 'flip-flopping' because you are a troll.
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I've been consistent all along: the GOP is not living up to their rhetoric from 2016. No doubt.
The claim that I am making (with a lot of mental gymnastics as the only response), is that the Democrats were fine in concept with an election year nomination in 2016, and now they are NOT fine with an election year nomination.
2016: fine with the concept
2020: not fine with the concept.
I'm not sure such a simple statement of fact is particularly controversial. And recognizing it seems to be the opposite of obtuse.