It's uncanny the way perhaps the three most distinguished Supreme Court nominees in my lifetime-Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh-have all been brutally slimed.
The sliming of Judge Kavanaugh is part of a long-standing pattern, not a surprising eruption of some new form of feminism or just part of the current political conflict.
Not so long ago, the left, usually in the form of pidgin Marxism Or, as candidate Clinton put it, "It's the economy, stupid."
For if the left couldn't explain things, their path to political power led through the politics of personal destruction, the sliming of their opponents.
The leftists had learned that they couldn't best them in a serious debate, so the only hope was to so besmirch the nominees that the left might prevail in a confirmation vote.
Politics as usual, the sort of politics my generation was raised to believer in and to practice, are gone, and will be gone until a new left, with new arguments, emerges.
When Clarence Thomas spoke against the sliming at his confirmation hearing, he described it as a "High-tech lynching." That was at a time when the technology, by our standards, was fairly primitive.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271421/leftist-sliming-rising-michael-ledeen
The sliming of Judge Kavanaugh is part of a long-standing pattern, not a surprising eruption of some new form of feminism or just part of the current political conflict.
Not so long ago, the left, usually in the form of pidgin Marxism Or, as candidate Clinton put it, "It's the economy, stupid."
For if the left couldn't explain things, their path to political power led through the politics of personal destruction, the sliming of their opponents.
The leftists had learned that they couldn't best them in a serious debate, so the only hope was to so besmirch the nominees that the left might prevail in a confirmation vote.
Politics as usual, the sort of politics my generation was raised to believer in and to practice, are gone, and will be gone until a new left, with new arguments, emerges.
When Clarence Thomas spoke against the sliming at his confirmation hearing, he described it as a "High-tech lynching." That was at a time when the technology, by our standards, was fairly primitive.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271421/leftist-sliming-rising-michael-ledeen
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