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The drive to sink Kavanaugh is liberal totalitarianism
By Sohrab AhmariSeptember 19, 2018 |


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If Senate Democrats and their media allies manage to destroy Brett Kavanaugh, they will bring America one step closer to a new, liberal style of totalitarianism.

I don’t use the “T”-word lightly. I’ve spent years pushing back against those who fling it about in free societies like ours. But totalitarianism doesn’t require cartoonish, 1984-style secret police and Big Brother. The classical definition is a society where everything — ethical norms and moral principles and t***h itself — is subjugated to political ends.

By that measure, the Democratic campaign to block Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, based on a hazy, uncorroborated, decades-old assault allegation, tends toward the totalitarian. Certainly, it has many of the elements of abusive politics that Americans normally associate with foreign lands untouched by the light of liberty and reason:

An (initially) anonymous accusation, surfaced at the 11th hour, seemingly calculated to strike terror into the hearts of Kavanaugh and his family members and supporters? Check! That came in the form of Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s cryptic statement last week, confirming that she had “received information from an individual concerning the nomination” of Kavanaugh but declining to offer any details.

An accusation that’s impossible to rebut? Check! Senate Democrats are demanding that the FBI look into the allegations first before the Judiciary Committee holds a hearing. But Kavanaugh’s accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, can’t remember the time or location of the alleged incident. An FBI probe is impracticable, not to mention improper given the lack of a federal crime.

Kavanaugh’s integrity is thus besmirched, and the path to the only forum where he could clear his name is obstructed.

A media mob that treats the mere existence of an accusation as proof of its veracity? Check! The examples of this are legion. My favorite came courtesy of the Atlantic writer who claimed that her own run-in with a pervert meant that Kavanaugh is also guilty. This, just a couple of years after Rolling Stone’s University of Virginia fiasco was supposed to have taught reporters a lesson about the importance of listening to the accused as well as the accusers.

It didn’t have to be this way.

Feinstein didn’t have to leak the anonymous accusation to the press, contrary to Ford’s wishes. Or she could have urged Ford to go public early, giving both parties enough time to be heard.

Even now, Feinstein and her colleagues could back a committee hearing, without which Kavan­augh has no realistic opportunity for mounting a defense. Kavan­augh is a judge and a political operator. But he ‘s also a father and husband.

But no. Senate Dems have settled on the ugliest means available, even by the standards of the body that added the verb “Borking” to our political vocabulary. The question is: Why have Republican high-court nominations brought out the worst from the left, going back to the Ronald Reagan era?

The short answer is that liberals fear their major cultural victories of the past half-century are democratically illegitimate. Not a single one was won at the b****t box, going back to the Supreme Court’s 1965 Griswold decision, which recognized a constitutional right to contraceptives. From a******n to gay marriage, plus a host of less titillating issues, modern liberalism has lived by the Court. And liberals fear their cause will die by the Court.

Unless, that is, they block conservative encroachments into the judiciary by all means necessary. Hence, Borking and Clarence Thomas-ing. And hence, too, the naked slandering of Mitt Romney in the course of the 2012 p**********l campaign, to forestall his shifting the Court to the right.

I wish I could say that the way out of this impasse is for the right to double down on the gentle conservatism represented by Romney, the Bush dynasty, and the late John McCain. Perhaps that is the right course in the long term. But for now, it is imperative for the health of American democracy to resist the liberal ruthlessness that is on display in the halls of the Senate.

The verb “to Kavanaugh” must not be permitted to enter our lexicon, lest the step to unfreedom become irrevocable.

Sohrab Ahmari is senior writer at Commentary and author of the forthcoming memoir of Catholic conversion, “From Fire, By Water

Airforceone

Why did Chuck Grassley and Orin Hatch request a FBI investigation when Anita Hill accused Clearence Thomas. Joe Biden was the chairman and he asked President Bush 41 to direct the FBI to investigate. But now the hypicracy of Grassley and Hatch makes me sick. Just investigate and get to the t***h and stop your BS
Damm what is it with you people.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Because she was accusing Clearence Thomas of sexual haressement at the Federal level and withing 1 year of accusation...Judge Kavanaugh was accused of possible groping and possible attempted rape that happened 36 yrs ago..She doesnt remember where,when...She doesnt remember much of anything. Why she didnt come out as soon as she found out about his nomination???She would of been more believable!!!..And you are willing sacrifice man's future and reputation who by the way his friends talk has impeccable reputation!!!..65 women who knew him best signed petition on his behalf....She needs to come and testify or STFU!!!

PeterS

And the drive to sink Merrick Garland was Conservative ...what? Haven't you guys ever heard that what goes around comes around?

woodguru

I thought it was about taking out the most unfit SCOTUS nomination in history, which he is.

woodguru

What do you call the drive to refuse to confirm Garland?

woodguru

You are unhinged. she remembers exactly where it took place and who witnessed it, it's Kavanaugh and his two friend/witnesses that can't remember anything and refuse to testify under oath, and they are not saying it didn't happen, just that they can't remember.

Kavanaugh does not have an impeccable reputation, he has at least six credible and provable perjuries, multiple overturned decisions, and a history of partisan conduct. He is the worst SCOTUS pick in history, and McConnell told Trump not to nominate him, that he had too much baggage.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

BS!!!.....She said it was 2 of them in the room...But Kavanaugh's friend said he wasnt there...Kavanaugh's friend also said that he doesnt remember that party....Name me 6 so called credible and provable perjuries...65 women signed the petition in his favor!!!....And im NOT unhinged..You people are!!!

glibona Loc: Nevada

Research the reason regarding the decision not to consider Garland for supreme court nomination under the then sitting pres. obama... re McConnell... that nomination should be made by the incoming president.

Gatsby

Victims have a right to be heard. If Ford is in fact a victim, why doesn't she want to be heard?

From the beginning, '#AnonymousToo' did not want to be heard, she just wanted to torpedo Kavanaugh's nomination.

The accused have a right to face their accusers.

An accuser that doesn't know what year it may have been, doesn't know how she heard about the alleged party,

doesn't know how she got to the alleged party, or how she left the alleged party, doesn't know who else was at the alleged party.

The fact that Kavanaugh's mother ruled against Ford's parents in a foreclosure; is grounds for Ford to recuse herself from this nomination process.

Is it because she knows that her fraud will surely be exposed? Or is it because she knows that to get caught lying to congress could mean prison?

Airforceone

Well why not the FBI investigation. She has asked for the FBI investigation Kavanaugh wants nothing to do with that and Kavanaughs buddyJudge the alcoholic refuses to testify under oath. Your White House I***t said that’s not something the FBI does its the Federal Bureau Of investigation. That’s what they do.

She is more than willing to come and testify under oath, Kavanaughs and Judge do no. Grassley don’t Want to put Kavanaugh under oath. So who wants the t***h to come out damm turn it over to FBI it will take them 4 or 5 days to interview these people and get them under oath.

I don’t know if he’s guilty or not but if he’s is going to be appointed to the highest court in the land then what’s the problem with a few extra days.

And stop you childish behavior with the STFU

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

You STFU,Airfarce1...He wants to testify...He wanted to do it from the first time her BS came out!!She is the one who is hiding!!!She is the one who needs to proof that he attacked her..Its on her,not on him!!!

PeterS

Look you guys blocked Merrick Garland for a year. Why are you getting your nickers ruffled because Kavanaugh is blocked for a few weeks? He will be confirmed at the end of next week and you will have your conservative stranglehold on the country in place for decades to come. Be patient little butterfly...be patient...

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

You had your libturd stranglehold for decades, its time for a change its our turn now!!Live with it!!!

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Hey Airhead, the statute of limitations for this alleged sexual assault, NOT RAPE, expired 30 years ago. The FBI investigates federal crimes, not alleged sexual assaults in high schools. That is the jurisdiction of local law enforcement, but the local cops only investigate an incident if the victim reports it to them. In this case, Ford waited damn near 30 years before she spilled during a marriage counseling session with her metrosexual husband.

Good grief, if the FBI got involved in investigating such things, they'd be in just about every city and school in the nation. Drunk and stoned teens are all over the place and their hormones often get the better of them.

And, for your edification, Kavanugh has been under oath since the first day he appeared before the Judiciary Committee. Since you have no clue how the American justice system works, stow your ignorant rants. Save them for the kids in your day care group.