Quote Originally Posted by Irving Washington View Post
Here's a good editorial by David Brooks. I'm not sure it adds anything new, but he describes it well.
Everyone comes out of this badly.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/o...e=sectionfront
Much truth in Brooks' description.

A colleague - in the Brooks mold, always looking to detoxify - was on vacation & off the grid after Kavanaugh's first round. "I was OK with Kavanaugh on the SCOTUS. Follow the Constitution"... until he saw Kavanaugh's second testimony.

"That guy shouldn't be a judge at *any* level. He undermines credibility in the SCOTUS, and maybe more broadly in other courts, certainly adds a shadow of doubt to Trump appointees. We're in serious trouble as a nation."

(Vacation Zen evaporated immediately.)

Maybe Kavanaugh had to "fight fire with fire", or whatever... but the tribalism has unquestionably been amplified.