If Thomas had been a Democrat nominee and Hill a Republican, you can guess how fast she’d have gone down in flames. I vividly remember when this crap happened, since it dominated the airwaves when I was on vacation at my uncle’s vacation home in the Poconos (I was 17 in 1991, but already quite politically aware). I hit the ceiling when they dug up this nonsense and knew it was nothing but a high-tech lynching of a Conservative Black man.
As I recall watching the hearings, those that worked with Thomas had nothing but praise for him (and when lines like the “pubic hair on the coke can”, a rip-off of a line from “The Exorcist” that Hill trotted out seemed highly dubious). I think at the time she worked for him, Thomas was a single man, so she used that against him (claiming he was obsessed with porn and the like, though mild in comparison to Bubba who was on the way to the White House the following year). A key individual in the case who would’ve been able to utterly refute or corroborate Hill had died by this point, so the media was able to boil it down to he said/she said.
But the one basic thing that stood out was this: If your boss was a perv, obsessed with sex, harassing female staffers, et al, WHY would you keep working for them AND follow them to the next job ? In the 24 years that Thomas has been on the bench, we’ve heard no lewd or lascivious actions from him since, so it seems to point to the fact this was a personal vendetta by Hill.
Unfortunately, the ultraleft Dems/media spun the whole spectacle into a “war on women” and they ran numerous Marxist dingbats the following year, whom unfortunately still pollute the Senate to this day (Boxer/Feinstein/Murray/Cantwell). It also would help lead to Zero getting to the Senate, since Carol Moseley-Braun upended incumbent Dem Alan Dixon (who voted to confirm Thomas, though later said he regretted it).