As the Republican-controlled Senate clears the path for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to occupy a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, Democrats have sounded a war cry to retaliate by adding seats to the court if they retake the White House and the Senate. This kind of court-packing would be the final coup de grâce in the current collapse of bipartisan governance in America, and in our two-party system itself. There is an alternative, though, that brings sanity and due process back to the Senate's constitutional duty to give advice and consent on a president's Supreme Court nominees. In order to implement an enduring solution, we need to understand how we got to this sorry state.