[Kim Strassel - WSJ] A Kavanaugh defeat would demoralize the Republican base, not energize it.
As the battle over Brett Kavanaugh rages on, pundits continue to speculate about what an unproven sexual-misconduct claim might mean for the future makeup of the Supreme Court, for subsequent nominations and for the credibility of the #MeToo movement.
In the halls of Capitol Hill, the question centers on a much more immediate and political question: the fate of the Republican Party. The overwhelming verdict‐on right and left‐is that if Judge Kavanaugh goes down, so too does the GOP in the upcoming midterms. |