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kavanaugh-
hypocrisy-response-carrie-severino

What a difference two years makes.

When Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court was
pending and
sexual assault allegations against him surfaced, Democrats
rushed to
judgment in the blink of an eye.

Just three days after the Washington Post reported on Christine
Blasey
Ford’s accusation against Kavanaugh, a group of Senate Democrats
— Richard
Blumenthal, Mazie Hirono, Kirsten Gillibrand and Patty Murray —
held a
joint press conference expressing their support for Ford. No
matter that
little information was known about the alleged assault and that
Ford’s
account had zero corroboration at the time (in fact, it was never corroborated). Hirono bluntly said that the men in this country
needed “to
shut up and step up” and “do the right thing for a change.”

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Where is Sen. Hirono now? The pressure is mounting for the Left
to take
Tara Reade’s accusation against Joe Biden seriously in light of
the new
corroboration of her account, but Senate Democrats seem to have
lost their
taste for their former calls to “believe all women” now that the
alleged
assaulter happens to be the presumptive Democratic nominee for
president.

Some Democrats seem to have contracted a sudden case of
laryngitis and are
saying as little as they can about the matter.

Sen. Kamala Harris lamented in 2018 that even a re-opened FBI
investigation into the Kavanaugh allegation was not “a search
for the
truth” but an “abdication of responsibility and duty.” As
recently as last
year, Harris said that she believed numerous women who accused
Biden of
unwanted touching. Of course, that was when she was running
against Biden
for the nomination. Now that Harris is on the Biden VP
shortlist, it’s
nothing but crickets.

In 2018, Sen. Amy Klobuchar said that she Ford “more credible”
because
Ford “had mentioned [the alleged Kavanaugh assault] before.” Now
multiple
corroborators have come forward in support of Reade’s
allegations against
Biden, yet Klobuchar has said nothing. Then again, Klobuchar is
also on
the Biden shortlist.

These senators who were so vocal during the Kavanaugh
confirmation
suddenly have a deaf ear now that speaking up could cost them.

The contrast between the Democrats’ outrage in 2018 and their
silence in
2020 could not be starker.

An increasing number of Democrats, including Gillibrand and
Stacey Abrams,
are ready to dispose of the Reade allegations altogether.

Abrams, the former Georgia gubernatorial candidate, said in an
interview
with CNN that while “women deserve to be seen and…listened
to…The New York
Times did a deep investigation and they found that the
accusation was not
credible.” This is a shift from 2018, when Abrams said about
Ford, “I
believe women, and I believe survivors of violence always
deserve to be
supported and have their voices heard.” But now that Abrams is
on the
Biden VP shortlist, she’s moved the due process goal post.

Gillibrand also affirmed her support of Biden, notwithstanding
the new
corroboration of Reade’s allegation, and notwithstanding years
of self-
branding as a champion for women. She told reporters that
Biden’s devotion
of his life to “supporting women” and his “vehement[]” denial of
the
allegation were enough to convince her.

Even #BelieveWomen champion, Alyssa Milano, discovered the
virtues of due
process in recent weeks, proclaiming on Twitter: “I believe,
along with
many others in this space, that accusations need to be
investigated with
due process for the accused.”

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During the Kavanaugh confirmation circus, Senate Democrats threw
due
process out the window. People were hounding Kavanaugh’s friends,
students, colleagues and classmates trying to dredge up
information. No
accusation against the nominee — however unsupported or far-
fetched — was
beyond investigation.

Tara Reade’s accusation is an old one, and we don’t have enough
information yet to know what actually happened. But there is
infinitely
more corroboration of Reade’s account than there was of Ford’s,
and Reade
has been much more specific about the time frame and location
than Ford.
Yet Democrats have to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to even
acknowledge the allegations against Biden.

While nobody might have guessed it at the time, the Kavanaugh
allegation
and how it was handled by the Left has turned out to be the
perfect foil
for the Biden allegation. The contrast between the Democrats’
outrage in
2018 and their silence in 2020 could not be starker.

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Ultimately, this proves that Lindsey Graham was right in 2018.
In his
memorable remarks before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Graham
yelled to
his Democratic colleagues: “Boy, you guys want power.” Lindsey
Graham was
exactly right. The Democrats’ 2018 theatrics weren’t driven by
principle
or an actual search for the truth but rather political
expediency and
power.

In 2020 it’s now Joe Biden who is accused. Gone is the
Democrats’ outrage.
Yet the truth from 2018 remained unchanged: for the Left, it’s
all about
politics and power.

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