From Jonathan Bernstein at BloombergView:
If there’s one thing conservatives should know by now, it’s that there’s no appeasing the radicals in their midst. Yet not only do they continue to try; in some cases organizations formerly described as “conservative” have moved their firepower to the fringes.
Thus, Heritage Action — the activist sister organization to the Heritage Foundation — is pushing the view that Democratic presidents should never again be allowed to get a new Supreme Court justice confirmed. If that means keeping the current vacancy open for another four years, so be it.
This sign of defiance — like the 2013 government shutdown and the battles to depose House Speaker John Boehner and now Paul Ryan — is more about bullying mainstream conservatives than it is about the Supreme Court. It is certainly not a way to fix the broken Republican Party.