To be clear: I believe Ford. Kavanaugh s a rapist.
He should be in prison, not adjucating court cases.
And as we know he will perjure himself over being a rapist, I'm also in favor of vacating his convictions. It is too likely he was blackmailed, and I'd rather let 10,000 guilty men go free than convict one free person.
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45 is himself a rapist and a serial harasser of women, and I can't imagine he cares even a tiny amount whether the accusations are true or not. Nor will his most ardent followers, because they believe only him. All 45 sees is a Supreme Court candidate who's likely to support his position.
ReplyDeleteCongressional Republicans really only care that Kavanaugh is dangerously regressive. I'm sure that many of them are fine with the idea that he's a rapist. Even the ones that aren't fine with it will for the most part support him because it's what their donors want, and they want the political win more than they care about morals. The only way they'll change sides is if their voters are so obviously against the -- and so charged up that it will actually matter at the ballot box -- that it would be political suicide to support him.
All that said, I suspect at this point that Kavanaugh isn't going to get the position. The avalanche of support for the accusation will be followed by more accusations, because people who do that sort of thing tend to do it more than once. The weight of this will break his chances, although the odds that it will result in criminal penalties is extremely small at this point.
In my (very) limited sample, I've noted that men seem to think this will torpedo Kavanaugh's chances, and women think it will not. I defer to their expertise.
ReplyDeleteAnd to be clear: I am making no claim about whether he'll be on the supreme court.
ReplyDeleteI rather think he will. For a long, long time. A long time of telling women they don't control there bodies, of enforcing white supremacy, and generally being a fucking douche canoe.
But what I want is for him to be in prison.
There’s no statute of limitations in Maryland. Just tossing that out there.
ReplyDeleteI also think this won't stop him but I'd love to be wrong.
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