Perhaps until today I could wonder at who Brett Kavanaugh is. So much has swirled around. Then I listened, sobbing quietly, to Christine Blasey Ford’s wrenching recollection and testimony, all based on fact and personal suffering, and deeply corroborated and without doubt. As the afternoon rolled around, I listened to Kavanaugh turn the circumstance around to an attack on himself and his family, as is if Ford had not suffered and it was all a witch hunt. He did not apologize or comment. He nearly screamed about conspiracies in ways that directly mimic the right wing, and divide and cause great harm to our country. He says that he asked his 10-year old daughter to pray for Dr. Ford. Really. His approach to truth telling is shocking. By his own voice, he succumbs to the classic perpetrator-as-victim narrative, just as Donald Trump does all day long. He does not see what the real story is. He has shown himself to be partisan, rancorous, un-judicial, and locked into a political narrative, not a defense of judicial qualification. He must not be seated on the court.
Jonathan A. Wright
Northampton