"This is about power."

I don't like the expression "Democrats going nuclear."  We didn't start the fire, broseph.  If Biden wins and we can take back the Senate this November there should be hell to pay.  (Likely perhaps, but not certain.)  Mitch McConnell has been wiping his ass with Senatorial norms for his entire career.  He's the one who pushed Dems into a corner.  If a moderate Merrick Garland was on the Supreme Court now, Republicans would still be in the enviable position of getting a fifth extremist right-winger onto the court.

Long story short, David Corn gets it -- "To Honor Ginsburg, Democrats Have One Choice: Go Nuclear":

"It will be bare-knuckles politics from the right. Do or die. By any means necessary. To replace Ginsburg with a young right-wing extremist. And for the Democrats to have a chance of thwarting them, they must realize that this fight is not only a matter of persuasion. They will not win by writing well-reasoned op-eds. Cable host tirades will be of little use. Panel discussions will be irrelevant. Clever ads highlighting GOP hypocrisy won’t do the trick. Angry editorials in the New York Times won’t help. Not even a freckin’ David Brooks column ('conservatives should realize they have an interest in preserving democratic norms!') will do them any good. Passionate speeches on the floor of the US Senate? Fuggedabout it.

This is about power."

Obama's greatest fault was believing that Republican politicians would ever deal with a black president in good faith.  Observing norms served him well as a rising politician, but they failed him as a president in a post-factual, post-policy era of Fox News.

Biden might well make the same mistake.  If things break right this November, it's our job to hold his feet to the fire and remind him that post-Trump nothing is sacred, and everything (for better or worse) is now possible.

And as I read recently on Twitter but can't find a cite for, Jon Stewart should apologize to a generation of middle-age liberals for convincing us that posting video clips highlighting the egregious hypocrisy and outright lies of Republicans was somehow a "win" for liberals, let alone anybody else in this damaged, teetering experiment in human freedom known as The United States.