Regardless of how one feels about Gorsuch, what's likely to happen isn't good news for the country, and both parties are going to have a lot of regrets.

It started with Bork, calmed back down, then accelerated with how Garland was treated, and now, this. And be prepared for some truly breathtaking hypocrisy all the way around, but in this case, mostly from the Republican side. Refusing to even give Garland a hearing was a defacto filibuster.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/neil-gorsuchs-supreme-court-nomination-is-on-track-to-irreparably-change-the-senate--and-further-divide-the-country/2017/03/29/dc57011e-13d3-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.1122ed9b82e5