Grace Canceled by Dana Loesch

Author:Dana Loesch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2020-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

To add insult to injury, progress pundits tried to shame Kavanaugh for fighting back, though most conservatives were not having any of it.

No one can forget the powerful image of a righteously angry Brett Kavanaugh refusing to bow to the rage mob, his wife seated behind him, her pained expression a mixture of anger, pride, and fear.

In that moment the Democrats failed to realize that they had overplayed their hand. Keelhauling the nominee pleased their base, but much of the public was appalled, as it made clear in the election that soon followed.

By subjecting Brett Kavanaugh to such an ugly ordeal, the left turned many voters—not just Republicans, but independents and even Democrats—into Ashley Kavanaugh. Women across the country put themselves into Mrs. Kavanaugh’s shoes. What if my husband were wrongly accused? My son? My brother? My friend?

A wife and mother, I wondered the same thing myself. Was there no presumption of innocence until evidence provided proof of guilt? If an appointment to the Supreme Court could be thwarted by false accusations, what happens when the attacks do not draw national attention? If there is no hope for justice at that level, there is no hope of justice at any level.

It wasn’t just women who were affected by the mob’s attacks. The Kavanaugh witch hunt shook the confidence of many men, young and old, in our political system. Much as the Clarence Thomas hearings flipped the political switch of my late friend Andrew Breitbart, so the Kavanaugh hearing emboldened a new generation of young men.

Voters were infuriated. The media used the phrase “Kavanaugh fallout” to describe the growing animus of voters against politicians who contributed to the effort to humiliate and destroy an innocent man and his family.

The Kavanaugh confirmation vote became the litmus test for every Democrat and Republican on the ballot across the country and propelled Republican voter enthusiasm. Trump’s approval moved up, with a Wall Street Journal–NBC poll giving him the best rating of his presidency to that time, at 47/49.30 Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the lone Democrat to vote in favor of confirming Kavanaugh, almost certainly saved his reelection with his vote.31

The rage mob’s witch hunt affected the #MeToo movement’s credibility too. As recently as November 2017, according to one poll, 80 percent of Republican men were inclined to believe a woman who claimed to be a victim of sexual assault. After the “evidence-free, politically charged, and eleventh-hour hearings to litigate the culpability of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh,” that figure had dropped to 21 percent.32

This wasn’t just a fight for SCOTUS, it was also the second major refutation of the rage mob.

Not only was Kavanaugh confirmed, but the expected “blue wave” in the 2018 elections was considerably diminished. Republicans lost the House of Representatives but increased their majority in the Senate—almost certainly because of Kavanaugh. The rage mob was not invincible after all.

Kavanaugh fought back in a way Republicans never do but need to do. He fought for himself and he fought to uphold the integrity of the nomination process.

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