Dems’ Drive to Divide

Democrats are already preparing their next round of complaints for when the extra FBI investigation of Brett Kavanaugh comes back empty. Their real agenda here is simply to delay and divide — to push off a vote on confirmation until they can defeat him, and to exploit the situation to get their voters to the polls this fall.

The fact that they agreed to a limited, oneweek investigation won’t tie their hands when that leaves the nation knowing no more than it did last Friday. They’ll claim White House interference, and even protest that it wasn’t a criminal investigation — though that was never in the cards, since there’s no remotely credible claim Kavanaugh ever broke federal law.

Yes, we understand that people of good will are glad that FBI agents will actually interview Kavanaugh’s high-school pal Mark Judge and other potential witnesses named by Christine Blasey Ford (as well as, it seems, by his Yale accuser). And we’d be fine with that — in the absence of a massive partisan push to destroy Kavanaugh by any means necessary.

But that’s what’s going on. This phase of it began when some Democrat leaked Ford’s name and accusation to the press, forcing her to abandon the anonymity she’d requested and guaranteeing enormous pain for her — all to gum up the confirmation. The cynicism is so deep that Dems won’t even condemn the patently absurd charges brought forth via Michael Avenatti: All they care about is maximizing the dirt.

This campaign aims to maybe derail the nomination, to delegitimize Kavanaugh even if he wins confirmation and to deepen the nation’s political divisions to Democrats’ benefit. They don’t have to win on any one front to still come out ahead — and they don’t give a damn about who or what gets hurt as long as they win.

Even more disgusting than their cynicism is that there’s an excellent change it’ll work.