{"id":11433,"date":"2018-10-02T19:23:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T02:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11433"},"modified":"2018-10-02T19:23:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T02:23:20","slug":"fallout-from-the-kavanaugh-hearings-a-permanent-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/fallout-from-the-kavanaugh-hearings-a-permanent-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallout from the Kavanaugh Hearings: A Permanent Cloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">C<\/span>onventional wisdom suggests that, if confirmed, Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh forever will be \u201csmeared\u201d and stained by past frenzied unfounded allegations of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the opposite just as well may be true. As a Supreme Court justice, Kavanaugh would have withstood every imaginable smear and slander and yet stayed defiant in defending his character and past, proof of both his determination and principles. His near-solitary rebuttal to his Senate accusers may suggest that Kavanaugh could prove to be among the most fearless justices on the Court.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the only lasting effect, if any, of the serial smears lodged against him might be that in the future, as in the case of Justice Thomas, Kavanaugh would be essentially immune from progressive media attacks. What he went through likely has inoculated him from the Georgetown-party-circuit syndrome of conservative Supreme Court judges\u2019 eventually becoming more liberal by the insidious socialization within the larger D.C. progressive media, political, and cultural landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, contrary to popular opinion, Clarence Thomas hardly remains under a permanent cloud after his ordeal. What stopped further Robert Borking for a while was the resistance and pushback of Clarence Thomas. Far from being ruined by unproven charges, he resisted the mob, got confirmed, and thereby established a precedent that innuendo, ipso facto, would not derail a nominee. For three decades, Thomas has not been regarded as suspect by most Americans but is seen as inspirational for his courage in facing down character assassination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/10\/fallout-from-the-kavanaugh-hearings-a-permanent-cloud\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Conventional wisdom suggests that, if confirmed, Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh forever will be \u201csmeared\u201d and stained by past frenzied unfounded allegations of sexual assault. Yet the opposite just as well may be true. As a Supreme Court justice, Kavanaugh would have withstood every imaginable smear and slander and yet [&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":[1199,1193,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Yp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11402,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-new-refuge-of-scoundrels\/","url_meta":{"origin":11433,"position":0},"title":"The New Refuge of Scoundrels","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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We know where you sleep at night!\u201d The mob\u2019s apparent\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Kavanaugh&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Kavanaugh","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/kavanaugh\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11439,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-campus-comes-to-congress\/","url_meta":{"origin":11433,"position":3},"title":"The Campus Comes to Congress","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The polarizing atmosphere of the university has now spread to Congress. During the recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh, we witnessed how college values have become the norms of the Senate. 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