How Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Finally United The Right Under Trump

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How Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Finally United The Right Under Trump: Trumpism is now the unregretted tattoo that altered the Republican coalition, making it edgier, more rugged, and more relentless in pursuing its policy objectives.

It is not hard to imagine a President Jeb Bush nominating Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court. It is difficult, however, to imagine Bush sticking with Kavanaugh through the fire his confirmation process became. That difference is why Republican enthusiasm for the midterm elections, which had been lagging, now is on steroids and might stay that way.
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Confronted with a liberal self-styled “resistance” movement — whose very name reeks of the virtue-signaling that galls the right — Trump responded in kind. Left-wingers march in the streets and chase prominent conservatives out of restaurants; he bows his back and marches Kavanaugh onto the bench for a lifetime. Liberals feel better for a weekend; pragmatic conservatives get to feel vindicated for decades. Good trade.

Trump not only refused to rescind Kavanaugh’s nomination when the confirmation process got rocky—as both Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush had done with flagging nominees—he barnstormed the country and held campaign rallies in jam-packed basketball arenas rallying his coalition behind Kavanaugh. After playing nice for a handful of surprisingly diplomatic days, enabling a judiciary committee hearing to fairly hear the allegations against Kavanaugh, Trump retrieved his megaphone from its holster and unleashed ... By last Saturday’s confirmation vote, this episode was not even predominantly about Kavanaugh or Christine Blasey Ford; it was a tectonic struggle between the voters’ chosen Republican government and the ruthless Democratic minority seeking to topple it by any means necessary.
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The price for Republicans of enduring Trump’s cringe-worthy moments can be high, but the product that has to date come with that price — a more muscular GOP every bit as willing to match the gladiator tactics of Democrats like Sen. Kamala Harris and Sen. Bernie Sanders — is one many conservatives are increasingly content to pay.

The completion of Kavanaugh’s confirmation on the eve of the midterm elections is a gift to Republicans even bigger than one justice, even a justice the cements a 5-4 conservative majority on the court. It’s the gift of common purpose
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Trump is rude and obstinate to the point of being obnoxious. The crucifixion of Kavanagh's character has reminded us what we already knew about non-conservatives, and why this type of character is so necessary.

Neo-Marxists enemies of freedom opposing Kavanagh are every bit as vicious as Trump is vicious, and when it comes to that kind of fighting, we are much better off having Rambo backing us up in this jungle than we are having Mother Teresa fitted with a machete and a gun.
By all means let the prayers pray, and let the preachers preach, but politics has no standards of decorum and decency. Thank you Mr Alinsky. If we want to win the political battles necessary to be able to speak our minds without fear of having our reputations and our lives ruined for having a different opinon than the political correct ones of the neo-Marxist post modernist left, then we need to fight the battles we have been given, rather than expecting that the Queensberry rules still apply to us, but us alone.
The British learned soon enough that you cannot wage warfare against guerilla tactics with drums and red coats and scheduled tea times. People like Mona Charen and George Will and company are absolutely adorable, real sweet-hearts.
But when it comes to winning political battles, they have been relegated to the chapel, praying for victory for the other side, for the most part, it would seem

Everybody else is now going to do what it takes to make freedoms more dynamic than ever.
 
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Trump is rude and obstinate to the point of being obnoxious. The crucifixion of Kavanagh's character has reminded us what we already knew about non-conservatives, and why this type of character is so necessary.

Neo-Marxists enemies of freedom opposing Kavanagh are every bit as vicious as Trump is vicious, and when it comes to that kind of fighting, we are much better off having Rambo backing us up in this jungle than we are having Mother Teresa fitted with a machete and a gun.
By all means let the prayers pray, and let the preachers preach, but politics has no standards of decorum and decency. Thank you Mr Alinsky. If we want to win the political battles necessary to be able to speak our minds without fear of having our reputations and our lives ruined for having a different opinon than the political correct ones of the neo-Marxist post modernist left, then we need to fight the battles we have been given, rather than expecting that the Queensberry rules still apply to us, but us alone.
The British learned soon enough that you cannot wage warfare against guerilla tactics with drums and red coats and scheduled tea times. People like Mona Charen and George Will and company are absolutely adorable, real sweet-hearts.
But when it comes to winning political battles, they have been relegated to the chapel, praying for victory for the other side, for the most part, it would seem

Everybody else is now going to do what it takes to make freedoms more dynamic than ever.
So we should apologize and just stand back and let you build your dream world where the only freedoms tolerated are those allowed by the Christian Right, the only religions allowed free exercise are those approved of by the Christian Right, the only political opinions recognized are those endorsed by the Christian Right, a world in which the Christian Right defines what is patriotic and truly American? Why should we?
 
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It is great people have feelings on the subject like those mention in the OP, but there's also actual polling data : Poll: Kavanaugh confirmation energizes Democrats more than GOP

Asked whether it would make them more or less likely to vote for a Senate candidate who supported confirming Kavanaugh, 36 percent of voters say it would make them less likely — more than the 31 percent who would be more likely to vote for a Kavanaugh-supporting Senate candidate.
 
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It is great people have feelings on the subject like those mention in the OP, but there's also actual polling data : Poll: Kavanaugh confirmation energizes Democrats more than GOP

Asked whether it would make them more or less likely to vote for a Senate candidate who supported confirming Kavanaugh, 36 percent of voters say it would make them less likely — more than the 31 percent who would be more likely to vote for a Kavanaugh-supporting Senate candidate.
The great thing about the election being in a few weeks is that we won't have to wait long to find out.
 
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I don't think this necessarily shows absolute unity among Trump supporters, or that they even love Kavanaugh all that much...

I think it highlights something we already knew about a sizable subset of the GOP: They'll get behind anyone/anything that shows the potential to advance their position on two key social issues.
 
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The great thing about the election being in a few weeks is that we won't have to wait long to find out.

True, and while Kavanaugh has brought the Right under Donald's sway, there's still plenty of time for something else to come up to splinter them again... my money's on how he handles (or doesn't handle) Saudi Arabia.
 
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