Let us fully dispense with the polite fiction that last week’s Senate hearings on the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh were intended to bring us closer to a common understanding of the truth. This entire affair is not about truth, but power—who will wield it, and at whose expense.Judith Donath, also in The Atlantic, is more scathing:
What is hard to see, unless you see the world through the lens of a certain type of powerful man—like Trump, like McConnell—is that the picture that has emerged about Kavanaugh’s past, far from marking him as unfit, signals that he is trustworthy. It shows that Kavanaugh is there for the guys. Most of all, he knows how the world works: Ordinary rules are for ordinary people. They do not apply to the entitled elite—and he will fight to keep it that way.Donath notes that not only has Kavanaugh demonstrated a willingness and ability to keep the secrets of his own elite circles — his Georgetown Prep male classmates, for instance — but a willingness and ability to uncover the secrets of others, such as Bill Clinton's. "Keep the secrets of the in-group; raid and reveal those of the out-group", as Donath puts it, adding, "Kavanaugh, up for an ostensibly non-partisan position, has hinted that Trump is part of his in-group these days".
The public doesn't currently know if Kavanaugh will be confirmed. My guess is that Don Trumpone and his senatorial consigliere, Mitch "fuck fairness, I'll do what I damned well please" McConnell, have put the fix in: no matter what the FBI investigation turns up, McConnell has the leverage to secure every Senate Republican's vote to confirm.
But however things turn out, those of us who aren't in the old boys' club have got to make our long-term goal the dismantling of that club, one old boy at a time. White men have got to have their stranglehold over this country's leadership broken.
Don Trumpone and Consigliere Mitch would be good first starts.
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