OPINION: The Zelig of legitimacy crises: Brett Kavanaugh and our eroding American institutions
"It seems that you are the Zelig or
Kavanaugh was there in 1998, pushing special prosecutor
"It is our job to make his pattern of revolting behavior clear," Kavanaugh wrote to his boss. Later, in a memo to staff laying out the case against Clinton (excerpt: "The President also indicated through his actions that he wanted
Kavanaugh was there in 2000, helping the five conservatives on the
Kavanaugh was there in 2005, delivering President
Kavanaugh was there on Thursday, crying just after
As
Friday, the all-male Republican members of the
Flake's move came a day after Kavanaugh had dodged calls from Democratic senators to request an FBI investigation into the supposedly false claims he said had ruined his good name.
Unless the feds somehow find a smoking gun decades later about the assault Ford vividly remembers it looks like
And on abortion rights, and on everything for decades to come.
America has survived an awful lot of crises of confidence since 1988, just after Kavanaugh ended his frat-house college years and the last time a Republican won the popular vote in a presidential election without an incumbent running.
The only institutions most of us retain confidence in are armed state force -- with 74% very or mostly confident in the military, according to Gallup, and the police (54%) -- and small business.
Meantime, confidence has plunged from 59% to 29% for public schools, 59% to 38% for organized religion, 36% to 23% for newspapers.
From 35% to 9% for the
I don't know how many more crises of confidence we skate past. I fear Kavanaugh will keep showing up at them.
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