The Brett Kavanaugh saga has exposed the ugliest side of America — its upper crust. As Chauncey de Vega notes, Kavanaugh has benefited at every step of his life from the fact that he’s a support network of class privilege.
The problem isn’t what Brett Kavanaugh did as a youth, Josh Marshall says. It’s that he’s demonstrably lying about it now that shows he’s unfit for the position.
Amanda Marcotte says Kavanaugh will be confirmed not despite the allegations but because of them — she sees this as a Republican attempt to break the entire #metoo movement. I disagree, because I don’t think the movement is that fragile.
The Kavanaugh case has put a spotlight on male bonding rituals of the upper middle class, and while it isn’t pretty, it’s all too common for males to bond over the humiliation of a woman. In the vernacular, bros before hos.
Democrats are learning an alarming truth this cycle: They are not popular with older Hispanics, not in Texas (where they lost a special election in a majority-Hispanic district they had held for decades) and certainly not in Florida, where Rick Scott holds a commanding lead over Democrat Bill Nelson among Hispanics over 50.
I was stunned by this story not just because Texas has a law requiring children to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, but because it’s actually going to court against a child for failure to comply. And some people think we’re becoming more like the Nazis. Wake up, sheeple, we’re already there.
Why do so many colorless centrist Democrats fail to understand that their appeal is, um, becoming more selective? John Hickenlooper, anti-marijuana governof of Colorado, is the latest self-deluded contestant for the Martin O’Malley Trophy, awarded to the presidential cycle’s most ineffectual candidate.