Is a unified Republican Kavanaugh tsunami heading our way this November?

After watching weeks of the Democrats’ ugly, scorched-earth politics of personal destruction against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, fed-up Republican voters may be ready to deliver a chastisement of biblical proportions on election day.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, for one, seems to think so.

Rep. McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Sunday that the politics surrounding the sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh are working in favor of the GOP’s candidates because Republican voters are more motivated than ever to go out and vote.

“Prior to the Kavanaugh hearing, the intensity level was really on the Democratic side,” McCarthy said during a Fox News interview.

“More Democrats were wanting to go vote than Republicans. Republicans thought there was not a need,” he said. “But in the last week, there has been a fundamental shift. People are now becoming upset. Not just at how [Judge] Kavanaugh was treated, but Dr. Ford. That the Democrats, knowing, had this letter, held it, and then put her through this — you did not have to do this.” McCarthy is the only one to have noticed that the Kavanaugh debacle has lit a fire under many Republican voters. Writing in the Washington Examiner, Kimberly Ross opined that “if the additional hearing served a purpose for the GOP, it was to awaken a sleeping giant.” Should this phenomenon occur, it will suggest that the divided GOP, made up of Trump fanatics and reluctant, even disgruntled, Republican voters are actually able to unite behind a common goal of defeating the enemy. Frank Cannon, the president of American Principles Project, declared in The Hill on Sunday that “Sept. 27, 2018, should be remembered as the day when their party became, clearly and unapologetically, the Party of Donald Trump.” Cannon argued that most establishment Republicans who have had reservations about President Trump have been “red-pilled” by the brute force of the Democrats’ onslaught against Trump’s highly qualified Supreme Court nominee. For those Republicans who are, above all, dedicated to respecting and preserving the sanctity of bedrock American institutions — such as the Supreme Court, the U.S. Senate and a free press — the past two weeks have opened their eyes to just how corrupted these institutions have become. They are now seeing, as millions of Trump voters did two years ago, that these institutions and so many others have been captured and completely hollowed out by the political left, so that they can be used to advance progressive desires and weaponized to bludgeon any person who gets in their way. If even Brett Kavanaugh could be subject to such potentially career-ending attacks, so could any establishment Republican, no matter his or her previous standing — and no matter his or her innocence. Amid an unmistakably angry Kavanaugh’s refutation of these attacks, as well as Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) now-viral castigation of the shameful actions of his Democratic colleagues, establishment Republicans felt the same anger of those voters who, in order to send a message to the Washington elite, voted for Trump in 2016. As I’ve written in the past, the Trump movement ought to be seen, first and foremost, as anti-progressive, a response to the rapid progressive takeover and corruption of American institutions. Every fight that Trump has taken on since the beginning of his candidacy — against the “fake news” media, corrupt elements in the FBI and Department of Justice, the NFL and the entertainment industry — can and should be seen through this lens. And while some conservatives have been hesitant to support the president’s tactics due to their respect for these institutions, the left’s character assassination of Brett Kavanaugh may have been the final straw.