You play with the cards you’re dealt. Democrats didn’t have a hand where they had any control over blocking Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
Exactly. The Republicans forced the Democrats into a corner when the Republicans went nuclear.
The Republicans wanted a nuclear war, and they got one.
And, as is usually the case in politics, it was the democrats who first went nuclear by voiding the long standing filibuster tradition on most bench appointments. They opened the door most of the way, the Republicans smashed it open the rest of the way and the democrats are now complaining that the draft is too strong.