Furthermore, the Democratic Party has been held hostage by the likes of the queer theory crowd, with their embrace of porn, prostitution, and transgenderism, and despite the sneers from many on the so-called "left," they are every bit as sexist as the right. I would argue even worse.
The problem is sexism. Sexism infects people of all political persuasions.
Women have already demonstrated that they will vote in large numbers to rid the judiciary of members who fail to take sexual violence seriously. In June, 62 percent of voters in Santa Clara County voted to recall Judge Aaron Persky. Persky sentenced Stanford swimmer Brock Turner to just six months in jail after a jury convicted Turner of three felonies for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster at a frat party. Women across the country reacted with visceral outrage to this injustice. In fact, Christine Blasey Ford reportedly told a friend in 2016 that Persky’s sentence of Turner, a privileged athlete like Kavanaugh, had prompted her to disclose her own assault to him. Although there were no exit polls, polling in advance of the recall reflected a gender gap big enough to drive a recall through.
The federal bench is not set up for populist movements like the recall. But there are avenues. Kavanaugh, like Persky, can be unbenched. Women are simply not going to accept this monumentally unfit man remaining on the Court regardless of what the Republicans manage to ram through this week. Sooner or later, as Chicago newspaperman Finley Peter Dunne predicted, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.
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