Here are the real victims

Thanks to Donald Trump, Brett Kavanagh, and the Trumplican Party, we have learned two things concerning sexual assault and the women who have experienced unwanted sexual advances: First we should be grateful that women come forward with their stories of sexual abuse: second, that their stories be taken seriously and heard by all with utmost comity; we just won’t believe them.

Finally, we have learned that the real victims of sexual assault are men — poor, powerless, hard-working and conscientious young or not-so-young men who are accused by mixed-up women who are most likely Democrats and want to bring down powerful but completely innocent guys.

In the case of Brett Kavanaugh, these women women created a hoax and a fraud in league with a cabal of liberals to exact revenge for the Clintons and to assuage their anger over Trump’s 2016 election and to do so by seeking to destroy Kavanaugh’s life.

Imagine the horror if Kavanaugh had been voted down for a seat on the Supreme Court.

In that tragic event, he would have been forced to return to his job as a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit at a salary of $220,300 a year. Now, he will get a raise of $34,700 — nothing to sneeze at.

That extra 35 grand a year will buy lots of beer. So think of poor Brett’s struggle had he been voted down.

Both Trump and Kavanagh epitomize the belief in white male victimhood. Both are cut from the same cloth — born into privileged circumstances, propped up by familial advantages of money and connections, both with a sense of entitlement — one a professed sexual predator and Peeping Tom (Trump bragged on national radio about how he would surreptitiously spy on teenage beauty pageant contestants in various stages of undress) and the other accused by three women of being a sexual predator; the truth of their allegations might have been revealed had the FBI performed a serious investigation into the women’s assertions.

Also, both men have learned that when accused by women, the winning tactic is to deny and then to bellow louder than they.

The victimhood felt by Trump, Kavanagh, and white men generally parallels Trump’s base political support. Analyzing in-depth survey data from 2012 and 2016, the University of Pennsylvania political scientist Diana C. Mutz found that “a growing body of evidence (shows) that the 2016 election was not about economic hardship… Instead it was about dominant groups that felt threatened by change and then supporting a candidate who took advantage of that fear.”

She added, “for the first time since Europeans arrived in this country, white Americans are being told that they will soon be a minority race (and) members of a historically dominant group feel threatened… They try to protect the status quo however they can, defend their own group and start to feel more negatively toward other groups… Reminding whites that nonwhite groups will soon outnumber them revved up their support for Trump, their desire for anti-immigrant policies, and their opposition to political correctness.”

Watching Trump and Company bemoan how “scary” it is for men these days reminded me of my 12 years living and working in the Jim Crow South. White people told me over and over that they held no ill will toward blacks; it was just that they wanted to change “our way of life” and they were simply just not ready to vote in large numbers and take over positions of authority.

Now, it’s women who threaten to run over these poor white guys. I mean, what’s the world coming to? This could lead to a Catholic president, a black president and, if a majority of the American people had their way, we would have a woman president now. If we’re not careful, we may indeed have one in the not too distant future. Watch out for that left-wing mob.

It may all start getting away from us white guys on Nov. 6.