This article first appeared in New English Review.
This week’s Senate hearings on the nomination of Brett
Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court are highly instructive. Not just because (to
this point) Kavanaugh is handling himself admirably, but for the behavior of the
Democrat senators and the disruptions. I wish every American were watching this
spectacle.
Yesterday, Democrat senators like Kamala Harris and Cory
Booker were demanding that the hearings be adjourned. They were complaining
that the White House had failed to turn over documents from when Kavanaugh was
working in the George W Bush White House. Of course, they know full well that
no White House would turn over documents related to advice the president was
getting. They just want to delay the process until after the election in the
hope they might gain a majority in the Senate and defeat the nomination. How
embarrassing to watch committee chairman Charles Grassley trying to get through
his written comments while being interrupted constantly by the likes of Harris
and Booker
Even more instructive are the disruptions by people in the
audience, shouting sentiments echoing those of the Democrat senators. The most
prominent among them was Muslim activist Linda Sarsour, who was dragged out of
the chamber by infidel cops nearly by her fashionable hijab, which was flapping
in the breeze. A beautiful sight. People
like Sarsour have the reasoning skills of a 9th grader.
One should ask: Who is it that routinely disrupts the
proceedings of others? It is almost without exception those on the left. I have
seen it myself time and time again on university campuses where any pro-Israel
display or event is disrupted. It is the left that wants to shut down any
speech to which it is opposed. Pro-life students on campus. Shut them down.
Bring Milo Yiannopoulos to speak? Shut it down. They routinely attack the
Campus Republicans and the Young America’s Foundation. Similarly, they are
against the Kavanaugh nomination, so they come to shout and disrupt.
I would hope that young people, who are still trying to
figure out what’s right and wrong across a wide spectrum of issues, would pay
close attention to which side is willing to debate and dialogue with the other
side, and which side would rather shut down debate, shut down the views of
others, and disrupt that with which they don’t agree. A good start would be to
watch the Kavanaugh hearings.
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