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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n

W<\/span>hen the Christine Ford saga finally ended with the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, a lot of truth had distilled out, along with the evaporation of prior pretensions and misconceptions.<\/p>\n

The Left<\/strong><\/p>\n

The hearing confirmed that the traditional JFK\/Hubert Humphrey Democrat party, as once envisioned by a Bill Clinton, Gary Hart, or Jim Webb, is long kaput. In its place is being birthed a hard-left progressive movement that absorbs the ideologies and methodologies of its base and that now incorporates all sorts, from Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s socialist hipsters to Black Lives Matters, Antifa, and Occupy Wall Street protestors.<\/p>\n

The new progressives recently have come to believe that they gain traction by the theater of disrupting senate hearings, cornering senators in elevators, stalking them on the way to work, doxing their opponents on the Internet, and during the hearings throwing out the concept of due process. Any means is deemed permissible to enact visions of social justice, given legislative and executive power is lost for now \u2014 and as if proverbially ordinary Americans who watched the televised circus might applaud the performers.<\/p>\n