Kavanaugh’s old stories of jerkish behavior probably were a hint he can’t be trusted. But because they involved sex, they made both sides nuts, calling him a stone cold rapist or defending him like a catholic choir boy. He was neither but clearly he had a deep mean streak to do what he did to the one witness to the Clinton Foster murder. He didn’t belong on the Supreme Court.
Politics makes people on both sides into cultists. Ya get what ya get, every time you focus on your emotions rather than logic. Indignance is not a good emotion to choose a Supreme Court Justice from.
Threat of death often motivates one. Scalia wasn’t afraid of death. I’m not sure yet about the older, wiser Kavanaugh. I am sure about Roberts.