The immolation of Judge, now Justice, Brett Kavanagh didn’t keep him off the Supreme Court, but it did offer a road map to the left’s identity group politics.
The left has long been telling certain groups that they are victims. If those striving for victimhood can’t point to any specific instance of persecution, no matter. To be a victim, says the left, it’s enough that you’re a member of a group with other members or ancestors who were victims. If you are, then we’ll pretend you’re a victim too.
The left does this to get votes. They promise to champion these victims/voters for the recompense or maybe even the reparations to which they believe they’re entitled, if only they’ll vote Democrat.
This group victim idea was destructive enough, but now it’s evolved to something even worse. You see, for every individual who is a victim as part of a victim group, there must be an individual who’s guilty as part of a guilty group.
In the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing, a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her a third of a century ago and two-thirds of his life ago when he was 17. The witnesses she named — including her lifelong friend with political leanings similar to hers — had no recollection of it. Indeed, there was no corroborating evidence at all.
The left demanded you not require any, on penalty of being name-called or perhaps seeing threatening protestors outside your house or inside your elevator. Instead, you were instructed to simply “believe the woman” because women are one of those recognized victim groups.
Kavanaugh was left with proving a negative — that he didn’t commit a crime 36 years ago. In that near-impossible task, he was precluded from even offering an alibi because the woman was unable to remember the date or place of the alleged attack (though she did remember the exact amount and type of alcohol she had consumed —…
