These are strange days, and it's not because we have mentally impaired leadership. That's something we're used to: Wilson was incapacitated, Nixon was paranoid. Reagan was senile, W. was out to lunch. What is different is a new political party and many voters willing to destroy our national institutions in order to (1) stay in power or (2) regain control of women's reproductive capacity.
A friend wrote: If I could have lunch with anyone living or dead, I'd choose Lindsay Graham, dead.
It isn't Boofer Kavanaugh who makes me sick. I feel sick. It's the senators and voters who support Boofer. It's the ugliness of old white men and their wives, defending white women's privileges. The ugliness of Hatch and McConnell and Kennedy and Graham, who push the darkest aspects of human nature into the foreground. The irony is that as progressives we have maintained a focus on the bright side of human nature, while genuine conservatives have always warned us that people are no damn good. And now people calling themselves conservatives (actually weird, far-right radicals) are defending humanity at its worst and promoting the no damn good to high office. What could be more absurd than calling Mexicans racist while transforming a known preppy rapist into a Supreme Court judge?
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