The older white men of the GOP view Kavanaugh (and themselves) as victims.
I’ll give some examples, then I’ll explain what this has to do with fascism.
“What you want to do is destroy this guy’s life. . ."
Yale Prof Stanley @jasonintrator explains.
When fascist ideology takes hold, the dominant group feels it’s being victimized by encroaching equality.
What’s actually happening is this:
The dominant group comes to believe that equality is a myth, that nature prefers a hierarchy.
This is step one.
Step 2: To create fascism, the leaders maintain power by lying.
Except that is the standard at a criminal trial.
And there was NO criminal trial, which requires fair procedures.
cnn.com/2018/09/27/pol…
Rule of Law is torpedoed: Those in power will stop at nothing to keep power.
And yet the entire GOP falls in line with the lie that there was “ZERO evidence” even though many know better.
“The lie is pointing out an important truth,” Sarah Sanders said once when explaining one of Trump’s lies.
In other words, the GOP overlooks the lie because they believe underneath is an important truth.
The lie, however, gets to what the GOP sees as an important truth:
A woman should not be able to “destroy a guy’s life” by going public with salacious claims.
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And it tilts us closer to an actual regime change.
This takes us back to a time when men were seen as natural aggressors and a woman's task was to guard the goods (her chastity). If she was raped, she obviously failed.
On Fox a woman (!!) prosecutor asked why she went up the stairs.