The idea of “lawfare” also came up. The case may fail, but it ties Trump up in paperwork and legal fees. That may not be a great problem for Trump, but for ordinary citizens the burdens can be crushing. Watching crime shows now, I’m less on the side of prosecutors and more on the side of the perps than I once was.

Yes, the poll is an indictment of much of the electorate. The point I was making, however, is that 1 in 20 Democrats seem to have agreed with Dershowitz. A small number, but not zero.

He’s an attorney who has done criminal defense work. He’s also been a known dissident these days. I’m talking about people who are on our Facebook friends list. These people aren’t enmeshed professionally in politics or the law.

About that poll, since an endorsement of Ford’s accusations was simply unreasonable, it’s a severe indictment of much of the electorate.

Dershowitz certainly questioned the truth of Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations, and he did it publicly. That said, the Dershowitzs are very few and far between. However, they exist (but barely). See p 21 of this poll. Five percent of registered Democrats believed Kavanaugh over Ford and 19% weren’t sure. Among Independents, 29% believed Kavanaugh over Ford and 23% weren’t sure (among Independents the men were much more likely to believe Kavanaugh than the Independent women were).

“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.” – Mark Twain

Things that aren’t proved and aren’t true can become proven certainties in partisan minds, but I’m not sure if every actor in the process is convinced that they can put Trump in jail, or if they are just rallying the party base with more accusations. The assumption may be that somebody somewhere working on one angle or another will hit pay dirt, even if one’s own investigation doesn’t pan out. Still, even if one’s own efforts don’t put Trump behind bars, they do play a role in rallying the troops and uniting the party.

Hate to get drawn into a discussion over the proper name of a board game cartoon but I did start it! I’d never heard or read of the name “Mr. Moneybags” and I did make up the title of Mr. Monopolist.

Whatever.

Here’s his photo, sporting mustache and spats, coming out of lockup:

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His case was big news about the time of the creation of the game.

But the game of indicting one’s political opponents is not new. That was what I hoped would be my contribution.

In our social circle, I know of no partisan Democrat who offered the view that Christine Blasey Ford could not be taken seriously, and we know some bloody opinionated partisan Democrats. I’ve never seen such a view offered by a partisan Democrat in any forum. This is not a judgment that takes a mess of research. Here is a woman making an accusation 36 years after the fact (or 33 years in some of her iterations), describing an incident that even in her telling could be misrepresented by shading certain details, and neither she nor the Democratic Party oppo research apparat, nor their auxilliaries in the media, can do one foundational thing: provide some evidence that she ever met the two men she accused. There were in Montgomery County, Maryland in 1982 about 40,000 youths born after 1962 and before 1969, so it’s not as if it’s a tight little circle of people. Not only was no evidence adduced, no circumstantial argument was adduced. Between Blasey, Judge, Kavanaugh, and their siblings, you don’t find any two attending the same school bar Judge and Kavanaugh themselves. Blasey lived six miles from one, eight miles from the other. No old Polaroids, no affidavits, no diary entries, nothing puts these three people in the same room on any occasion. She named one person in Kavanaugh’s circle she said she dated around that time. He was in 2018 a schoolteacher in Atlanta. He said through his attorney he had ‘no knowledge relevant to her claims’ and provided for the FBI an affidavit neither side thought worth leaking.

Has no effect on their thinking at all.

because as he famously said, ‘I am in the way’ you are the target, and yet we pretend Putin is the big bad, I have no illusions about the man, I know the zachista way, the filtration camps, but Xi is the hegemon, who seems to be collecting all the cards, the turtle was part of the previous set,