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Posted on 09/30/2018 11:33:01 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
CNN’s John King offered one of the sharpest bits of commentary on Thursday in the aftermath of Brett Kavanaugh’s fiery defense of his reputation. This was the day, King noted, that Kavanaugh went from being a “Bush Republican to a Trump Republican.” If there’s any moment in time that captures the GOP’s evolution from the party’s last president to the current one, the cultural showdown over Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination is it.
Kavanaugh, after all, is a card-carrying member of the Republican establishment. He’s a George W. Bush loyalist who served as the former president’s staff secretary after working for him during the 2000 Florida recount. Bush appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. His elite upbringing in the Washington suburbs is worlds away from Trump’s blue-collar political base in the American heartland. ...
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The longer-term takeaway is that after 2018, there will no longer be an anti-Trump rump of the Republican party. Jeff Flake will be out of the Senate, along with his Trump-bashing colleague Bob Corker. A sizable share of the remaining Republican pragmatists in the House will have either retired or lost reelection. Voters will be faced with a binary choice heading into 2020: Join the party of Trump or be part of the #Resistance.
Kavanaugh, as a past political hand, surely understood that dynamic. A judge who would be culturally out of place at a Trump rally turned to tribal partisanship to rally support for his defense. If he is confirmed by the Senate, it will be on a party-line vote (unless West Virginia’s Joe Manchin decides to support him). And the GOP’s remaining Trump holdouts will have either made their peace with his presidency or defected to the Democrats.
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Life as a conservative...
"Come up to Capitol Hill, we'll get together, have a few laughs..."
Now all the NeverTrumpers have seen their NeverTrump buddy Brett Kavanaugh dragged out into the town square and offed by The Resistance in front of God and everybody.
Looks like you won't be last to the Lefty guillotine after all, NeverTrump... 
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