How the Brett Kavanaugh crucibles embers are still burning Democrats to this day

Democrats have come a long way from “Believe all women.”Or have they?In a September 2018 hearing throwdown that would prove among the most memorable in American history, Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) grilled soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh about his high school yearbook.Of particular interest to Whitehouse: teenage references to flatulence, drinking games, and a friend’s enunciation of his f-bombs.The undignified interrogation was part of the whole-of-party effort to smear Kavanaugh as a rapist — and then a gang rapist — based on the word of Christine Blasey Ford and the preposterous, long-since-forgotten accounts of other unreliable accusers.At the time, Whitehouse and the rest of his colleagues treated Ford’s word as gospel.Never mind that the only friend she said would be able to provide contemporaneous corroboration of her accusation could not.Or that said friend later revealed she was pressured into professing to believe Ford’s story.Or that she ultimately landed on Team Kavanaugh.Fast forward to last month, though, and Whitehouse was dismissing Lyndsey Fifield’s allegations of physical abuse against erstwhile Senate hopeful Graham Platner as “a lot of nothing” from “a woman who works for right-wing political operations.”“Not impressed” was the phrasing he landed on to describe his reaction to them, even though Fifield furnished far more evidence for her claims than Ford ever mustered.It was a charming sentiment out of any mouth, but it was especially enchanting emerging from that of a septuagenarian nepo baby blowhard.Whitehouse had to withdraw his endorsement of Platner this month after another woman accused him of rape.And when CNN’s Jake Tapper confronted the lawmaker over his treatment of Fifield on Tuesday, the beach-club bum stood by his comments.It’s “important,” explained Whitehouse, “to evaluate whether there is corroboration, and with respect to the first allegation, there was none.”True of th...