Hmm, I like how you explicitly identify this, though I disagree with the implication that liberals should abandon the rules. I think we need significantly stronger enforcement of the rules, not a lack of them. Because what did it cost McConnell to block Garland, and then nominate A. C. Barrett? Nothing. Nothing at all.

In a bad-faith political environment where the incentives to follow rules are based merely on good-faith, give the rules teeth and make them sharp.