{"id":11402,"date":"2018-09-19T15:56:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T22:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11402"},"modified":"2018-09-19T15:56:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T22:56:38","slug":"the-new-refuge-of-scoundrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-new-refuge-of-scoundrels\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Refuge of Scoundrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdcp-drop-cap-default\">J<\/span>ust when observers had concluded the desperate progressive opposition to Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court could not stoop much lower, it most certainly did.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), in the news recently for somehow unknowingly employing a Chinese spy as her gofer and chauffeur for 20 years, passed on information to federal investigators that weeks ago had come to her attention from an unnamed, unidentified, and anonymous female who claimed she was a high school acquaintance of Kavanaugh\u2019s. Apparently, we were to believe that the once-anonymous informant had harbored a long-simmering, but heretofore never-voiced complaint of sexual assault against Kavanaugh, which coincidentally reached a peak of unsustainable resentment at the time of his nomination to the highest court in the land.<\/p>\n<p>After days of gossip and innuendo to the effect that the likely next Supreme Court Justice might just be some sort of pervert, Anonymous finally came forward and identified herself as a victim of a then 17-year-old inebriated Brett Kavanaugh who (she says) sexually manhandled her in 1982 when she was 15. More specifically, the woman now alleges that Kavanaugh and another student at a high-school party\u00a0entered a room inebriated, pinned her to a bed, and then groped her while she was clothed. Young Kavanaugh then allegedly attempted to take her clothes off her while he and his classmate, Mark Judge, both laughed \u201cmaniacally.\u201d\u00a0She adds that she had sought \u201cmedical treatment\u201d for her unspecified injuries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/09\/17\/anonymity-the-new-refuge-of-scoundrels\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Just when observers had concluded the desperate progressive opposition to Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court could not stoop much lower, it most certainly did. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), in the news recently for somehow unknowingly employing a Chinese spy as her gofer and chauffeur for 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1193,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2XU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11443,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/one-ford-narrative-too-many\/","url_meta":{"origin":11402,"position":0},"title":"One Ford Narrative Too Many","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness In the end, the Christine Blasey Ford accusations collapsed. 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Think 338 B.C., A.D. 476, 1453, or 1939. The coordinated effort to destroy Brett\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Supreme Court&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Supreme Court","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/supreme-court\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12319,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/suppression-of-expression-obscures-the-truth-about-the-virus\/","url_meta":{"origin":11402,"position":2},"title":"Suppression of Expression Obscures the Truth About the Virus","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Americans are acquainted with predictable but ultimately failed progressive efforts to suppress free expression by preemptive invective and politically correct finger-pointing. 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