With characteristic grace and restraint, Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) responded Monday to the accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by claiming that “men in this country” are “perpetuating all of these kinds of actions [sexual assault]” and urged all men to “just shut up and step up. Do the right thing for a change.”
The “right thing” to which the senator so lucidly refers is allowing Senate Democrats to derail the confirmation of an eminently qualified judge to the Supreme Court based upon unsubstantiated, eleventh-hour allegations from an accuser who is uncertain of whether she’ll testify under oath. Her measured advice for good-faith male critics is to “just shut up” and obey — she’s on the right side of History, after all, and you’re just another one of the “men in this country” busy committing “all of” America’s sex crimes.
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