I know it’s wrong to judge a book by it’s cover, but there is just something about her that reminds me of so many other women of a certain type, who are post menopausal age (not that this is the cause, don’t get me wrong) professional/functional but riddled with anxiety and emotional disorders, not just paranoid but harbor delusions of persecution (usually also a hypochondriac), who believe they are a victim, but can rarely ever place any blame on a perpetrator because they have lived a rather privileged (albiet liberal) life, so they adopt all the class and group victim-think that is so pervasive.
She wanted Kavanaugh to be a bad person BADLY, even though deep down she knew it was wrong, and I am guessing the defense mechanisms are complex and impenetrable.
The thing is she is married, she had two children, she has a tenured academic job.
She is a lot better off than the lonely cat ladies with gig jobs, but she still has a huge sense of entitlement and victimization.