>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 truth itself — is subjugated to political ends.
>By that measure, the Democratic campaign to block Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, based on ahazy, 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:
I saw this article a bit ago thought about making a thread. Based.
Josiah Baker
>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 aredemanding that the FBI look into the allegations firstbefore 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 ballot box, going back to the Supreme Court’s 1965 Griswold decision, which recognized a constitutional right to contraceptives. From abortion 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 presidential campaign, to forestall his shifting the Court to the right.
how long until he commits sucide by shooting himself in the head twice?
James Clark
>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.”
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Is the NYPOST /our paper/? Author is listed above, Damn good article that should be the headline on Drudge right now
Why does this surprise you? NY Post has always leaned right wing.
Sebastian Thompson
it's true and we all know that almost every major institution is liberal but the GOP are equally at fault for being complete pussies and letting it get this far. Dems act with impunity because they know they can get away with it.
Jeremiah Wilson
This is a pretty sensitive topic and to see them say to push back is showing that more republicans see how they can't win by just letting the liberals play disgustingly dirty. This is a huge article that should be shared everywhere, it's basically telling people to wake the Fuck up to this evil shit.
Christian Howard
OP here, I will be posting a nothing article, the disgusting celebrities are making the push to support that lying cunt. See next few posts.
Samuel Russell
Another*
Ryder Smith
Good article.
Lambasted when?
Jack Ortiz
bump
Landon Carter
>But totalitarianism doesn’t require cartoonish, 1984-style secret police and Big Brother. Not like it would be missing in america though.
Jacob Barnes
Today OP was not a fag
Elijah Clark
THIS IS PATHETIC, CELEBRITIES ARE RALLYING BEHIND FORD AND SAY THEY SUPPORT HER EITH NO EVIDENCE!
>A number of Hollywood stars have come to the defense of Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a high school party in the 1980s.
>The video, produced by the progressive group MoveOn, features “women from all walks of life,” including actresses America Ferrera, Julianne Moore and Gabrielle Union.
>“Dear Professor Ford, we know how difficult it is to stand up to powerful people. We want to thank you for publicly sharing your story of sexual violence,” the women say in the video.
>Ford’s accusation, which she originally made in a letter to her congresswoman, Rep.Anna Eshoo(D-Calif.), has slowed down the confirmation process for the nominee. The Senate Judiciary Committee has delayed a vote on Kavanaugh and set a Monday hearingrequesting Ford and Kavanaugh to testify publicly.
Well written article. How can anyone on the left find these practices moral. Or does the end justify any means?
Jonathan Miller
>Ford’s accusation, which she originally made in a letter to her congresswoman, Rep.Anna Eshoo(D-Calif.), has slowed down the confirmation process for the nominee. The Senate Judiciary Committee has delayed a vote on Kavanaugh and set a Monday hearingrequesting Ford and Kavanaugh to testify publicly.
>But Ford has said that she won’t testify until the FBIinvestigates the allegation.
>The FBI has said that the accusation does not involve a federal crime and has not opened a criminal investigation. The White House has not yet directed the agency to reopen Kavanaugh’s background investigation to probe the claims.
>Kavanaugh and the White House have denied Ford’s allegation.
>Republican senators are imploring Ford to attend the Monday hearing and have indicated they will move forward in the confirmation process without herif she does not.
>The MoveOn video ends with the women telling Ford directly that they believe her allegation.
>“You are a survivor and millions of us have your back. You and your testimony are credible,” they say. “We believe you. Signed, Your Sisters.”
Does no one on Jow Forums want to discuss articles anymore? Shit man
Eli Cook
> liberals fear their major cultural victories of the past half-century are democratically illegitimate. Not a single one was won at the ballot box
Based and redpilled
Cameron Clark
>The short answer is that liberals fear their major cultural victories of the past half-century are democratically illegitimate Forcing their unwanted agenda in the court is a good point but their fear is the foreign investors/investments that line their personal pockets won’t be there anymore. They’re invested in destabilizing this country in more ways than one. They know too much and will be worthless.
Luke Hernandez
They think they're fighting LiteralNazisWhoWantToKill6millionJews, and so any immoral, dishonest or illegal act is justified if it means averting a future catastrophe. After all, wouldn't you go back in time and beat baby Hitler's skull in with a sledgehammer in front of his mother if it would avert his rise to power? That's the way they think. The problem is that the people they think they're fighting a war against and the scenarios that they imagine occurring if they lose exist only in their imaginations. They are completely disconnected from reality and they live in echo chambers where their ideas are only ever reinforced and never challenged.
They only care about earning brownie points for their frothing SJW base. These evil fucks don't care and just lie through their teeth.
Levi James
Unfortunately that's not true they do have a boring has but it's getting smaller cause of how crazy they are getting. The problem is trump is energizing there base. But I think they may be too overconfident.
Jeremiah Hughes
Man what are you shills gonna do when you realize that shilling has only made people resent you kikes even more?
Samuel Sanchez
Literally not a arguement.
Jaxon Gomez
The censorship only hides your fragile egos from the truth.
