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Thursday, October 11, 2018

Michael Goodwin: Hillary’s calling for a ‘civil’ war -- Where's the outrage?

Two events from the last two days stand out. The first came Monday night with President Trump’s forceful yet compassionate speech at the swearing in of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

The president opened with an extraordinary apology on behalf of the country to Kav­anaugh and his family “for the terrible pain and suffering” they endured during the historically brutal confirmation process. He said the unfounded allegations violated fairness and “the presumption of innocence.”

Trump also tenderly addressed Kavanaugh’s young daughters, telling them “your father is a great man, a man of decency, character, kindness and courage.”

The event was something of a spike-the-football moment in front of a cheering White House audience and as such was a clever piece of stagecraft, where Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell, Charles Grassley, Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins were saluted.

But the ceremony was much more than mere boosterism. With the eight other Supremes sitting in the front row, Trump aimed to restore dignity to the judiciary at a time when the dirtiest tricks of politics have buried the court in a mountain of mud.

The president is right to worry that the character-assassination attempt on Kavanaugh may turn out to be a seminal moment in American political and cultural history. The ideas that the court is just another political branch and that the presumption of innocence no longer applies if you are on the other team represent a seismic shift in how we look at each other and the nation as a whole.

If those ideas stick, we are in more trouble than we can imagine.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have been stating that Democrats support the Anarchist. ANIFA waves the flag of Hitler's Nazi secret Society. What is the difference.

Anonymous said...

The court is not buried in a mountain of mud. The mud stops at the door.

Anonymous said...

There is no fight left in her, Trump took it out of her.

Anonymous said...

I'm outrage every time I see her ugly as* face
GO AWAY

Anonymous said...

I say " bring it " Hillary would be on the major hit list , this time that brown spot on her rear would be very large.