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More than at any previous time, I had the disconcerting sensation that this country really is in a fantasy land that has only a tenuous relationship with the rest of the planet that those trying to impose their absurd carbon tax claim to be saving.

More than at any previous time, I had the disconcerting sensation that this country really is in a fantasy land that has only a tenuous relationship with the rest of the planet

Kavanaugh is a perfectly well-qualified occupant of the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court and will be confirmed to that position. (Indeed, he may have been before the printed version of this column is read). President Trump’s enemies in the beleaguered American political establishment that he has denounced as corrupt and incompetent — the Never Trumpers in his own party (Republicans) and the Resistance of the Democrats and their allies in Hollywood, Wall Street, the national media, Silicon Valley and the special interest lobbyists — fell in with all their force and influence behind the allegations of attempted rape in the early 1980s against Kavanaugh by Dr. Ford. The Democratic strategists held Dr. Ford’s letter to the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Diane Feinstein of California, as they held the Billy Bush tape of Trump’s lewd remarks about groping women for 11 years and released it just a month before the 2016 election. After the Kavanaugh hearings were over, and apparently contrary to Dr. Ford’s wishes, they made her claim public, and hearings reconvened.

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Despite mentioning a number of corroborating witnesses, all of whom denied under penalty of perjury any knowledge of the alleged incident, Dr. Ford became the instant heroine of the militant, emasculative, MeToo feminist movement and its vast cheering section. This gallery includes the legions of pre-emptively self-emasculated males who believe that the allegation is proof, denunciation is conviction, and any recourse to due process is mealy-mouthed prevarication designed to deprive outraged womanhood of its rights. No one not present can know what happened decades ago, but the Democratic strategists undoubtedly believed that this president, whose tendency to unwisely provocative comment is notorious, would say something that would enflame even moderate female opinion and deliver at least the House of Representatives to the Democrats in the mid-term elections on Nov. 6.