Yeah, to the poker analogy earlier with Mitch - him delaying til after the 20th is like being upset you lost with a worse hand.
Thing with McConnell is that you just have to assume everything he's doing is the most cynical, the most offensive and the most craven thing possible. Then you start to understand him.
He's not evil. He is using his very significant skillset to ensure that his country is governed in the way he believes it should be: as a white, Christian, male-centric institution. It's that simple. He understands the rules of the game and more importantly where thoes end and norms begin better than anyone, and just uses that to move legislation to his will. He's the kid that would cheat at every sport, but using things that aren't spelled in the rules. Would probably do the same on tests at school. Outcomes are all that matters.
The reason he is so hard to deal with is because his party has become uni-cultural: they all agree that they want the same white, male, Christian America that he does. So they can move as one.
The Democrats have the disadvantage of being hugely fragmented in both belief and approach. It's hard to get consensus on anything - just look around here - the most left-leaning posters seem to be genuinely upset that Biden beat Trump, and would prefer a total collapse.
If you all think that Schumer et al don't hate the f*cking turtles face and wish nothing more than to smash it in, you're wrong. But they adhere to the norms of the instutition, whereas the turtle is unburdened by them. The way the turtle really wins is if the Senate goes full Gringrich and abandons all of its principles to get one over on Mitch, imo.