Ben ShapiroOn Thursday, Republicans held a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Judge Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford. Ford has alleged that when she was 15 years old and Kavanaugh was 17, she attended a party at an unnamed location on an unnamed date; at that party, she says, Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge pushed her into a bedroom where they turned up the music, at which point Kavanaugh jumped on top of her and attempted to pull down her clothing, placing his hand over her mouth to stifle her screams.
The hearing was bound to be a spectacle from inception, largely because Republicans had no idea what the purpose of the hearing was. Democrats, by contrast, knew precisely the purpose of the hearing: to let Ford tell her story, then challenge Republicans to call her a liar by voting for Kavanaugh. The Democrats wanted the hearing to become a liar/not-liar binary decision. They succeeded in that task because Republicans, wanting to avoid charges of sexism, decided to treat Ford with kid gloves and avoid setting an agenda.
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