The point of yesterday's hearings was supposed to be confirmation or not of a Supreme Court Justice. That's been fully discussed, and it looks right now as if Kavanaugh will be confirmed. Time will tell. The hearings, however, also did a host of other things which cannot be overlooked:
1. They exposed the Democrats and their disgusting tactics fully. The statements from Kavanaugh and the outburst from Lindsey Graham were a rather clear denunciation of the Democrats smear tactics in a way that most Americans had not heard through the media. We don't know how many people actually saw these responses, but those who did could not miss them. Surely, these responses to the Democrats made the Democrat base even angrier than usual, but they were already plenty angry. What the responses also did, however, was to stir up the Republican base. As of a month ago, there was a concern that the Democrats would turn out in November energized by Trump hatred, but that Republicans would vote more like a normal midterm election, in other words at lower levels than the Democrats. This was the basis for much of the blue wave theorizing. The Democrats' smear attack on Kavanaugh changed the tide on the GOP side. Republican voters who haven't been paying attention now understand what will happen if the Democrats regain the majority in either house of Congress. It will likely have a big effect on the November turnout and with that, the result.
2. The Democrats succeeded in making a permanent enemy of Judge Kavanaugh. For the last 50 years, we have seen Republican appointments to the Supreme Court who go to Washington and get coopted into the liberal ethos of that city. Justice Souter is perhaps the best example. He came in like a Republican conservative and within a few years was voting like a moderate/liberal. Judge Kavanaugh will never be coopted by the liberals. He's actually had an "I am Spartacus" moment that he will never forget. The Democrats feared losing control of the Supreme Court for the first time since the early 1930s. With their tactics, they guaranteed that outcome.
3. The #MeToo movement got hit with a major problem because of the Democrats. Anyone looking at what happened here understands that this was a political battle that only used Dr. Ford as a pawn. The Democrats could have actually cared about Dr. Ford. After all, it was the Democrats who leaked Dr. Ford's name against her express wished for confidentiality. It was the Democrats who forced Dr. Ford to endure yesterday's circus when she didn't want to do it. Dr. Ford says she was attacked in 1982 and the Democrats forced her to be attacked again in 2018. For the Dems, it wasn't #MeToo, rather it was #DemPower. Remember, this entire matter could have been handled confidentially with a full investigation. Dr. Ford did not need to go through all this. The Dems know this. That's why senator Feinstein rushed to deny that she and her office (who were the only people beside Dr. Ford to have her name) didn't leak. My guess is that senator Feinstein is also prepared to say that the Titanic didn't leak either.
4. The hearings also raised the level of confrontation in our society. That's bad. People like Dr. Ford, Kavanaugh and their families got death threats from the crazies out there. Remember last year when a congressional GOP baseball team was attacked in VA and congressman Scalise was almost murdered. That was the result of the lower level of craziness fomented by the Democrats' campaign of hate. They run that campaign by vilifying every Republican as a racist, sexist, homophobe, etc who needs to be run out of town. It's a disgusting lie, but there are people out there in the Democrat base who don't understand that. They are getting closer to acting on the lie. Meanwhile on the other side, there are Republicans who feel threatened by the Dems. They too are closer to an actual fight. America needs to be a civil society in which people can disagree without hating each other. Yesterday was a big step away from that.
1. They exposed the Democrats and their disgusting tactics fully. The statements from Kavanaugh and the outburst from Lindsey Graham were a rather clear denunciation of the Democrats smear tactics in a way that most Americans had not heard through the media. We don't know how many people actually saw these responses, but those who did could not miss them. Surely, these responses to the Democrats made the Democrat base even angrier than usual, but they were already plenty angry. What the responses also did, however, was to stir up the Republican base. As of a month ago, there was a concern that the Democrats would turn out in November energized by Trump hatred, but that Republicans would vote more like a normal midterm election, in other words at lower levels than the Democrats. This was the basis for much of the blue wave theorizing. The Democrats' smear attack on Kavanaugh changed the tide on the GOP side. Republican voters who haven't been paying attention now understand what will happen if the Democrats regain the majority in either house of Congress. It will likely have a big effect on the November turnout and with that, the result.
2. The Democrats succeeded in making a permanent enemy of Judge Kavanaugh. For the last 50 years, we have seen Republican appointments to the Supreme Court who go to Washington and get coopted into the liberal ethos of that city. Justice Souter is perhaps the best example. He came in like a Republican conservative and within a few years was voting like a moderate/liberal. Judge Kavanaugh will never be coopted by the liberals. He's actually had an "I am Spartacus" moment that he will never forget. The Democrats feared losing control of the Supreme Court for the first time since the early 1930s. With their tactics, they guaranteed that outcome.
3. The #MeToo movement got hit with a major problem because of the Democrats. Anyone looking at what happened here understands that this was a political battle that only used Dr. Ford as a pawn. The Democrats could have actually cared about Dr. Ford. After all, it was the Democrats who leaked Dr. Ford's name against her express wished for confidentiality. It was the Democrats who forced Dr. Ford to endure yesterday's circus when she didn't want to do it. Dr. Ford says she was attacked in 1982 and the Democrats forced her to be attacked again in 2018. For the Dems, it wasn't #MeToo, rather it was #DemPower. Remember, this entire matter could have been handled confidentially with a full investigation. Dr. Ford did not need to go through all this. The Dems know this. That's why senator Feinstein rushed to deny that she and her office (who were the only people beside Dr. Ford to have her name) didn't leak. My guess is that senator Feinstein is also prepared to say that the Titanic didn't leak either.
4. The hearings also raised the level of confrontation in our society. That's bad. People like Dr. Ford, Kavanaugh and their families got death threats from the crazies out there. Remember last year when a congressional GOP baseball team was attacked in VA and congressman Scalise was almost murdered. That was the result of the lower level of craziness fomented by the Democrats' campaign of hate. They run that campaign by vilifying every Republican as a racist, sexist, homophobe, etc who needs to be run out of town. It's a disgusting lie, but there are people out there in the Democrat base who don't understand that. They are getting closer to acting on the lie. Meanwhile on the other side, there are Republicans who feel threatened by the Dems. They too are closer to an actual fight. America needs to be a civil society in which people can disagree without hating each other. Yesterday was a big step away from that.
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