Please provide evidence that Amy Barrett is a darling of the Washington Republican Establishment. As best I can tell she has never played any kind of a role in DC and she lives a 500 miles away.
She comes from the Republican establishment, her father was a Shell Oil corporate lawyer, she was educated at Harvard, a school favored by the establishment. She is a member of the Federalist Society, the essence of the establishment with the legal profession. Her campaign for the Supreme Court has been supported and advocated by the Washington establishment in government and in legal circles. She is their favorite. Her judicial record, while clearly conservative, defers to government, the natural environment for the Washington establishment. She has supported lockdown measures that employ the excuse of “emergency” to deprive citizens of their individual rights. This is the behavior of the Trump haters, and they are betting that she is one of them, who once confirmed with resist Trump as they are doing.
If you want an establishment conservative, she’s your gal. We have not been well served by these types. I would prefer a Trump conservative, a populist, and she is not that.
I will watch and wait. I hope that I am wrong.