The Brett Kavanaugh Probe Should Be About One Thing: Sexual Assault
Can we just remember something here? We’re talking about an alleged sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh, not boyish hijinks.
I feel like we need this reminder because over the weekend we started spinning into the phase where conservatives are saying liberals want to hang a guy for being a heavy boozer. Or for being impolite to women. Blazing this trail, unshockingly, is Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist, with tweets like this one:
But it’s not just her, and it’s not just Twitter. More credibly, Andrew Sullivan wrote in New York magazine after the Brett Kavanaugh-Christine Blasey Ford testimony last week that “when public life means the ransacking of people’s private lives even when they were in high school, we are circling a deeply illiberal drain.”