"I’m A Minority Woman Going GOP Over Dem Treatment Of Kavanaugh" thefederalist.com/2018/10/05/im-…
The party that established itself as a champion for the voiceless, powerless, and wrongfully accused, betrayed its values and launched a vicious attack on Kavanaugh that left him voiceless, powerless, and completely incapable of defending himself.
Against all logic and good faith, they released uncorroborated allegations of sexual misconduct to the public, counting on the backdrop of the #MeToo movement to make them that much harder to criticize or ignore.
I still cannot reconcile these actions with the social and criminal justice reform platforms that Democrats campaign on.
In recent years, the left has also strongly condemned men in general, and straight white men in particular, for practicing toxic masculinity.
Toxic masculinity, in their opinion, is the root cause of some of our most dangerous societal ills, such as domestic abuse, gun violence, and rape culture.
The cure? Men should be encouraged to feel, cry, and express their emotions and display traits that are not typically considered masculine.
But when Kavanaugh cried at the post-allegation hearings while recounting the effects of weeks of being beaten down and insulted by Democratic senators and much of the media, the blowback from the left was astonishing. He was mocked. They questioned his authenticity.
He was accused of putting on a performance. They asked what reason he, a man who was defending himself against unproven allegations of sexual assault and gang rape, whose family had been threatened and whose name had been eternally tarnished, had to cry.
That is gaslighting at its most egregious, from the most vocal opponents of the sort of manipulation that is usually perpetrated against women.
Only the wolves turned out to be sheep: I have seen countless Republicans defending and showing empathy for Ford on the news, giving her the benefit of the doubt on social media. By contrast, I have seen nothing of the sort for Kavanaugh from Democrats.
It’s impossible not to compare the way the process played out with Kavanaugh to what happened in 2016 with Merrick Garland, President Obama’s nominee to replace my father-in-law. In similar, though not identical, circumstances, Republicans showed much more respect and restraint.
Sure, they played hardball and refused to hold hearings for Garland’s nomination, but they never sought to diminish the man. The Democrats have played a whole different and dishonorable game, one that has no rules and no winners.
These events opened my eyes to the hypocrisy of the Democratic Party. It’s actually a very exclusive club that wants me as a member based solely on stereotypes of who I am supposed to be.
The core values they tout do not apply to everyone, as Kavanaugh can testify, but only to a very small, very specific subset of people who tick certain boxes or support them in their political agenda.
They relished inflicting pain on Kavanaugh in large part because he is everything they hate: a straight white conservative male from a privileged background. It’s terrifying that, while it might not put me in any danger, it makes many of the best men I know and love prime targets
