Excellent comparison! I just fear that the GOP will always be more unscrupulous than the Dems, and so will ultimately always be OK with gerrymandering (or deep fakes, or what have you).
You know he's seriously worried about the Epstein stuff if he's announcing a health issue. Normally he's far too vain to admit even the slightest of health problems.
The worst part is that Murkowski voted for the bill because Thune offered to give Alaska $50 million for rural hospitals to offset the loss in Medicaid funds. In other words, she knows full well how devastating this would be for the country, but she voted for it anyway because her own state would be exempt from some of the worst parts.
I'm now a firm believer in this theory.