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Brett Kavanaugh and family with Donald Trump upon the judge’s nomination in JulyTrump’s win in securing Kavanaugh confirmation another blow to democratic norms ‘The boiling frog metaphor: turn up the heat slowly but progressively and the frog in the water will eventually go numb — stop noticing — and die. That’s the threat to all of us if we’re not constantly calling out Trump’s extreme threat to democracy and the rule of law.’ — Tony Schwartz, ghostwriter of Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal, Twitter, May 21, 2018 Twitter is generally not my go-to source for words of wisdom. But in a world where the American president uses it for pouring fire on political enemies, a tweet from the remorseful ghostwriter who helped create the myth of Donald Trump seems to fit. Tony Schwartz Schwartz was spot on. When Trump demolished another democratic norm last week in securing Senate confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, it had the outward appearance of a normal event accomplished by Constitutionally prescribed means. But in reality, it was demagoguery wearing a mask. It was another incremental gut punch to our form of government that we notice only if we look at the total damage inflicted over two years. It was a victory secured when a president turned to his nuclear arsenal of divisive rhetoric to save a troubled nomination that every precedent in U.S. history and every norm dictated should have been withdrawn. The hell with the #MeToo movement and the credible testimony from Christine Blasey Ford about Kavanaugh’s alleged attempted rape in 1982. It was a victory secured because the White House goaded the nominee to use those very same tactics. The court’s entire legitimacy is now tainted because, in search of promotion, Kavanaugh surrendered any claim to judicial and nonpartisan demeanor by seething “what goes around, comes around” about Democratic opponents during his Senate Judiciary Committee testimony. This is not what our founders had in mind. James Madison and the rest created a system of checks and balances where Congress and the courts would act to blunt a president’s worst impulses. They did not envision a “democracy” where a Congressional majority does the president’s bidding to wedge in a flawed candidate to turn the court in its ideological favor. Alexander Hamilton specifically envisioned the Electoral College as the last line of defense. “The fact is that the Electoral College was primarily designed to stop a demagogue — a tyrannical mass leader who preys on our prejudices — from becoming President,” wrote Michael Signer, former mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, and an attorney and lecturer at the University of Virginia, in Time magazine. The Electoral College Was Created to Stop Demagogues Like Trump To Hamilton, the electors were supposed to be wise men (certainly not women in those days) who would find a replacement if a demagogue was selected by the masses. The motivation of Hamilton was on the mark, but the mechanism was a complete miss. The body is a rubber stamp, and the system allowed Trump to lose the popular vote by 3 million votes but win the election. With Kavanaugh in danger of defeat, Trump did what he does best: stir up the base. It started with a tweet questioning how her story could be true if there was no police report. body[data-twttr-rendered=“true”] {background-color: transparent;}.twitter-tweet {margin: auto !important;} I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place! — @realdonaldtrump function notifyResize(height) {height = height ? height : document.documentElement.offsetHeight; var resized = false; if (window.donkey && donkey.resize) {donkey.resize(height); resized = true;}if (parent && parent._resizeIframe) {var obj = {iframe: window.frameElement, height: height}; parent._resizeIframe(obj); resized = true;}if (window.location && window.location.hash === “#amp=1” && window.parent && window.parent.postMessage) {window.parent.postMessage({sentinel: “amp”, type: “embed-size”, height: height}, “*”);}if (window.webkit && window.webkit.messageHandlers && window.webkit.messageHandlers.resize) {window.webkit.messageHandlers.resize.postMessage(height); resized = true;}return resized;}twttr.events.bind(‘rendered’, function (event) {notifyResize();}); twttr.events.bind('resize’, function (event) {notifyResize();});if (parent && parent._resizeIframe) {var maxWidth = parseInt(window.frameElement.getAttribute(“width”)); if ( 500 Last week, against all advice, he sank lower to mock the sexual assault survivor during a rally in Mississippi. “I had one beer. Well, do you think it was — nope, it was one beer,” Trump said, mimicking Ford’s testimony as the crowd laughed and applauded. “How did you get home? I don’t remember. How’d you get there? I don’t remember. Where is the place? I don’t remember. How many years ago was it? I don’t know.” https://ift.tt/2E3lcSZ That came one day after he took the #MeToo movement back to the “blame Anita Hill days” by insinuating there is some trend of vengeful women trying to take down powerful men through false sexual misconduct allegations. “It is a very scary time for young men in America,” Trump said. Finally, goaded by White House counsel Donald McGahn, Kavanaugh went full Trump. The 53-year-old, who helped craft some of the most intrusive questions of Bill Clinton during Kenneth Starr’s independent counsel investigation 20 years ago, testified that the attacks on him were “revenge on behalf of the Clintons” and that “this whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit” fueled by “pent-up anger” over Trump’s 2016 election victory. The broadside was so unbecoming a potential Supreme Court justice that a former member of the court, John Paul Stevens, a lifelong Republican, turned against the nomination, as did some 2,400 law professors who signed a letter against him. Retired Justice John Paul Stevens Says Kavanaugh Is Not Fit for Supreme Court 'Unfathomable’: More than 2,400 law professors sign letter opposing Kavanaugh’s confirmation In fact, what aim hasn’t Trump achieved without rile and conquer? His visibility as a candidate was born of his racist “birther” accusations against Barack Obama. One of the very first demonizations of his war on immigration was his accusation of Mexico sending “rapists” across the border. He sought to coddle his extreme white-, er, right-wing base with his “very fine people on both sides” remark when neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan rallied in Charlottesville. White male grievance mounted during the Obama presidency for fear of losing 200-plus years of privileged status. The country was ripe for a demagogue to light the fuse. Trump jumped in and did just that. You want to argue that Ford and the other accusers were just wrong? It is possible to argue about lack of corroboration and sound reasonable, although I’d say how can you forget the face of someone you already knew as they laid on top of you with a hand over your mouth? But the way that Trump attacked not just Ford but the entire #MeToo movement to counter their mass opposition — that’s a norm our society should not have crossed. Just as stirring anti-immigrant sentiment and winking and nodding to white supremacists are norms our society should not have crossed. Just as using law enforcement as a tool to help ensure a nominee’s confirmation is a norm we never should have crossed. Trump said he gave the FBI freedom to interview anyone it chose, only for the agency to actually to be so limited, as sought by GOP senators, that dozens of potential witnesses were never interviewed. Show How You Feel, Kavanaugh Was Told, and a Nomination Was Saved The F.B.I. Probe Ignored Testimonies from Former Classmates of Kavanaugh The ends do not justify the means. This democratic system will deteriorate into an empty shell of itself if the rich, privileged and powerful use every tool at their disposal to achieve their aims. Like the boiling frog metaphor, we won’t feel the heat turning up until it’s too late and our society’s best traits are boiling away. I won’t argue that the Democrats are the only ones who can save us because they are some paragons of virtue. But if the Democrats do not take over one or both houses of Congress in next month’s elections, if only for the purpose to act as the Constitutionally prescribed check on this president, I fear for this country. America cannot handle another two years of Trump unshackled. The assumption had grown that a blue wave was coming in next month’s midterms, but the Kavanaugh affair has stoked the GOP base anew. Trump foes who stay home on Election Day because they underestimate his ability to stoke blind rage do so at the entire country’s own risk. The demagogue and his Supreme victory was originally published in Extra Newsfeed on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
