September 25, 2018
Around the country, women are radioactive with rage over the disgusting spectacle that has erupted around the effort to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Two women have come forward with credible claims of sexual assault against Kavanaugh and the Republican response has been smug contempt and disdain. In the functional equivalent of swinging his shriveled member in our faces, Mitch McConnell characterized these painful revelations as “a shameful, shameful smear campaign [that] has hit a new low,” (Source: “Mitch McConnell appears to have conveniently forgotten who Merrick Garland is,” by Chris Cillizza, CNN.com, 9/25/18).
Keep in mind that, while we have been having this street brawl over Kavanaugh, record numbers of immigrant children are being detained at the border and the government is raiding funds for AIDS and Head Start to pay for it. Keep in mind that the administration is quietly challenging the citizenship of Latinx people born in the Rio Grande Valley, refusing to renew their passports. Keep in mind that DHS has just announced a radical new interpretation of “public charge” doctrine that will allow the U.S. government to deny green cards and visas to immigrants who are, or are likely to, avail themselves of any government assistance exceeding $1821 over the course of a year, (Source: “Trump’s anti-immigration ‘public charge’ proposal solves a problem that doesn’t exist,” The Editorial Board, The Los Angeles Times, 9/25/18).
While we have been watching Kavanaugh go on his “Like A Virgin” tour on Fox News, this administration has been aggressively trying to destroy the access of African-Americans and Latinos to higher education- by attacking Harvard’s admissions policies on the one hand, and Howard University’s financial stability on the other.
This is what’s behind the Republicans’ savage determination to install a lying, serial sexual predator on the Court at any cost. The gloves are off and any pretense of regular order or fairness is mangled beyond recognition. Republicans know what’s coming in November and they are looking for an insurance policy to secure control for a generation. We understand the ultimate goal of this naked power grab. It is not simply to ensure a fifth vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, although it is that. It is not simply to enshrine the power of corporations over workers and consumers, to make gutting regulations Constitutionally bulletproof, although it certainly is that. It is to establish, once and for all, the power of a wealthy, misogynist and racist minority to treat women like meat and everyone else like trash. There are many names for that, but democracy sure isn’t one.
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