Brett Kavanugh is on the Supreme Court and the biggest reason is Donald Trump. When he won the nomination in 2016, it wasn’t unreasonable to think that Trump wouldn’t win the general election, he wouldn’t be true to his promise on judges even if he won, and even if he nominated the right people, he wouldn’t care enough about the Court to see through a difficult, high-stakes confirmation fight. We can now say of these presumptions, wrong, wrong, and wrong.
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This is written in a way that makes my brain hurt trying to figure out exactly what he meant.
I always fix those “double negatives.” So much easier to read without them.
It means the same thing as what everyone who initially laughed at Trump even running were thinking.
“He’s not serious.”
“He’s just looking for publicity.”
“He doesn’t have the experience to run a country.”
“He’ll never follow through with all these campaign promises”
Especially that last one. Who can blame people for thinking that. Most politicians don’t follow through.
Everyone pegged him wrong except those that voted for him. A lot of people have woken up since then. There isn’t going to be any blue wave. Too many people have swapped to President Trump’s side. I think that’s why we see Mitch and Lindsay acting different these days. They probably started out as true conservatives decades ago and had given up on the cause. Then Trump came along and was actually serious about MAGA. Everyone thought it was just a slogan. I think it gave them hope for conservatism again. That and seeing how hard he is actually working at it.