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发帖数: 2018 | 1 猪党药丸，就连反trump的保守派都受不了了。
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-never-conservatives-1538608630
The Never Conservatives
The Kavanaugh fight isn’t about Trump. We’re all deplorables now.
Donald Trump didn’t help Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation with his crude
mockery of Christine Blasey Ford on Tuesday night in Tennessee, but then
this Supreme Court moshpit isn’t about this President. The left’s all-out
assault on the judge is clarifying because it shows that the “resistance”
is really about anything and everything conservative in America. Mr. Trump
is its foil to regain power.
Brett Kavanaugh isn’t part of Mr. Trump’s New York menagerie, or some
Steve Bannon insurgent. The judge is the epitome of the GOP legal
establishment, a Supreme Court nominee from central casting. He went to the
best schools and served his apprenticeship among legal elites including a
clerkship with former Justice Anthony Kennedy.
He has spent 26 years in public service instead of cashing in as a Beltway
lawyer. He served at the highest levels of George W. Bush’s White House
staff in positions of great trust. On the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for
12 years, he has written more than 300 opinions and had at least 10 adopted
by the Supreme Court. He has taught at Harvard Law School at the invitation
of then dean, and now Justice, Elena Kagan.
With these credentials Judge Kavanaugh would have been on any Republican’s
short list for the Supreme Court. He could have been Jeb Bush’s nominee, or
John Kasich’s, though Mr. Kasich in the ambitious ebb of his career now
tilts with the anti-conservative left against Mr. Kavanaugh. In 2012 the New
Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin wrote that Mr. Kavanaugh would have been Mitt
Romney’s “most likely first nominee” for the High Court. Mr. Toobin, who
loathes conservatives, meant it as a warning.
Mr. Trump’s nomination of Mr. Kavanaugh is a credit to the process he
established to win the election and govern with conservative support. He
sought the help of legal elites on the right, led by the Federalist Society,
who compiled an impressive list of potential nominees. This isn’t a rogue
judicial operation to choose presidential cronies. It is the gold standard
for legal talent that believes in the original meaning of the Constitution.
It’s hard to see how any GOP President would have done better, and others
have done much worse.
Yet this is precisely why Democrats and the left have set out to destroy
Judge Kavanaugh—not in legal philosophy or competence, which they knew was
a political loser, but as a human being, a spouse and father. They need to
destroy him personally with accusations but no corroboration, as they tried
with Clarence Thomas, so they can deny the open Supreme Court seat to a
judicial conservative.
So much the better if playing the #MeToo card also helps Democrats retake
Congress. In this sense too, Mr. Trump is the left’s foil, though the
Kavanaugh fight has usefully exposed the dishonesty of the loud worries
about Mr. Trump’s threat to “democratic norms.”
Democrats were so worried about Senate norms that they hid Ms. Ford’s name
from Republicans for six weeks, found her a lawyer, midwifed a lie detector
test whose results they still haven’t fully disclosed, and then
orchestrated the rollout of her accusations. Mr. Trump’s rhetoric is too
often divisive and dissembling, but no action in his Presidency comes close
to matching the partisan viciousness of the Senate ambush of Brett Kavanaugh
. These are today’s Democratic norms.
The other Democratic targets here are Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and the
conservative GOP majorities in Congress that have cut taxes, eased crushing
regulations and confirmed a record number of appellate judges. Democrats
claim to want to be a “check” on Mr. Trump, but good luck with that.
Their real goal is to retake Capitol Hill, roll back tax reform, expand the
entitlement state, taunt Mr. Trump like a dancing bear, and set up 2020 for
a return of the Obama agenda under the identity-politics leadership of
Kamala Harris or Elizabeth Warren.
The media sometimes profess to be puzzled that more than 80% of Republicans
across the country tell pollsters they support Mr. Trump despite his
personal flaws. The Never Conservatives are the reason, and the assault on
Judge Kavanaugh is the latest showcase of their methods. Republicans have
figured out that if the left can willfully, even gleefully, destroy a man as
distinguished as Brett Kavanaugh, they can and will do it to any
conservative who threatens their grip on power.
Republicans are well aware of Mr. Trump’s excesses and falsehoods. But they
have also come to understand that the resistance to him isn’t rooted in
principle or some august call to superior character. They know Democrats
nominated Hillary Clinton in 2016 despite her history of deceit. Voters know
this is about the left’s will to power by any means necessary.
Republicans across America can see, and certainly their Senators voting on
Judge Kavanaugh should realize, that the left hates them as much or more
than they loathe Mr. Trump. Conservatives understand that, for the American
left, they are all deplorables now. |
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