Democrats, Kavanaugh, and ‘The End of Civilization’
By Andrew C. McCarthy
September 18, 2018 3:25 PM
If they get away with this, the only decent people in politics will be decent progressives.
Judge Robert Bork used to tell a prescient and darkly humorous story about watching Clarence Thomas’s Senate confirmation hearings — etched in pre-hashtag history as the “Thomas–Hill hearings,†in homage to Anita Hill’s role as the Left’s heroic accuser.
At the time, Thomas was a judge of the same eminent D.C. Circuit federal appeals court on which Bork had served. As he viewed Thomas’s “high-tech lynching†in horror, Bork recalled, a friend of his, the iconic Irving Kristol, approached and asked him what was happening.
“The end of civilization,†the judge sadly quipped.
“Of course it is,†Kristol deadpanned. “But it’ll take a long time. Meanwhile, it’s still possible to live well.â€
It was a poignant story coming from Bork. A scholar of great breadth, the late judge was a man from another time: a patriot who’d enlisted in the Marines at 17 during World War II and been called back to duty when the Korean War broke out, even as he embarked on a legendary life in the law. In 1987, four years before the Thomas–Hill hearings, the slide from civilization he so lamented — the slouch toward Gomorrah — had started when he himself was mugged by Senate Democrats. This libelous character assassination, derailing Bork’s nomination by President Reagan to the Supreme Court, had been led by Ted Kennedy.
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