Opinion
The Cory Booker you see has always been an imaginary creation
By David Harsanyi
September 7, 2018 | 9:58pm | Updated
Cory Booker is Spartacus! Cory Booker is the Saint of Newark. Cory Booker is your friend. Wait long enough, and Cory Booker can be your hero, too.
This week, the future presidential candidate defiantly claimed to put his Senate job on the line during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh, announcing that he would illegally release confidential emails sent by the nominee in 2001 and 2002 concerning racial profiling — a topic that could potentially derail the president’s pick.
Never mind that the emails weren’t confidential or that the documents merely demonstrated that Kavanaugh had expressed opposition to using racial profiling in post-9/11 law enforcement screenings. Facts are a trifling concern when you’re a self-styled hero.
So Booker, undeterred, dropped his contrived chummy good-guy Twitter persona and slipped on his hard-boiled tough guy act; he took full fake responsibility — over and over — for his actions, even if it meant an imaginary “ousting†from the Senate. “This is probably the closest in my life to an ‘I am Spartacus’ moment,†he informed the world.
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