Politics is all about preventing those whom you despise detest hate from getting anything they want.
That was proven during the Obama presidency. Things that REPUBLICANS had devised/created/gave birth to and wanted that Obama wanted to do were shot down. Republicans reversed themselves out of spite and hatred for Obama. In doing so it showed how absurdly simplistic they were and UNPATRIOTIC. They cut their noses to spite their faces and is that is why what you see today is so deformed and ugly and nightmarishly terrifying.
If principle had been what they stood for they would have WORKED WITH him but it was not that at all. They hated him and so with every fiber of their detestable being they fought him and obstacled him and prevented him from doing what he was constitutionally authorized to do (appoint a Supreme) by illegal means. And they got away with it. And that son of a mitch bragged about it. Their hate is so great the Kakistocratic teleprompter sb prez still talks about him all the time and continues erasing everything and anything having to do with Obama. The hate and jealousy and envy is more than he can tolerate. He lusts after being loved the way Obama is. GET OVER IT. It ain't gonna happen in any lifetime blimp baby!