By now, and just as matter of raw politics, you’d have thought Brett Kavanaugh would have been withdrawn as Donald Trump’s nominee for the US supreme court. Instead the US political class is girding itself for a moment of pure drama on Thursday, when the judge’s prime accuser – a woman who says Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers – comes before a senate committee to testify.
If they were following the usual political rulebook, Republicans would never have let it get to this stage. After all, the midterm elections are less than six weeks away: surely, the last thing they need is to cast themselves as the villains in a #metoo drama that will be a TV spectacular. Yet tomorrow Dr Christine Blasey Ford will be grilled over her account of a high school party back in the 1980s when, she says, Kavanaugh “pushed her on a bed, began grinding his body against hers and tried to undress her,” to quote the New York Times. “To stifle her screams, she asserted, he covered her mouth with his hand.”
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