Prejudging and predeciding is what the rebups want. It is the best they can hope for. Why play into it? The point is not to do something impossible. It’s to make them pay as high a price, as a party, for this as you can, if they resort to blocking democracy.
On a day when the outgoing Kentucky republican governor pardoned a child rapist and hundreds of others we are looking at making some moves to protect democracy here, not decide we lost it before we go into the ring.
Have you ever heard of Billy Carter? There was once a time when politicians did all they could to avoid even the appearance of impropriety. Something about the “dignity of the office”. Sadly, those days are gone.