The Democrat's playbook and their media cohorts

Michael Walsh:

Who really can be surprised by the Democrats’ latest antics surrounding Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court? As the sands of the hourglass pour over what once seemed like their inevitable ideological triumph, and leftists across America and around the world realize that their Glorious Revolution will not be completed in their lifetimes, the agitators, true believers, and committed cultural Marxists have grown increasingly desperate as they try to stave off their imminent discomfiture and defeat.

Still, the tactics they’re now employing against Kavanaugh, while extreme, are nothing new for them. They’ve always shot from the hip and aimed for the heart, hoping to sway public opinion by means of passion rather than reason. The more convinced they are of the righteousness of their cause—call it their “higher loyalty” to the arc of history—the more antic they get, like chimps in the zoo at feeding time, moving from whingeing servility to outright viciousness the hungrier they get. Left unchecked, even the cuddliest Cheetah eventually will rip off your face.

By now, the outlines of their playbook are well known. Since winning isn’t just everything, it’s the only thing, “by any means necessary” is their working ethos. It matters not whether any part of their argument contradicts their own long-held beliefs and principles (although if you don’t like those, they have others), or that their prescriptions are inconsistently applied, and that rarely if ever are they willing to live under the same strictures they wish to force upon others. If they weren’t so malevolent, you might mistake them not for Karl Marx, but for Groucho:

But malicious they are, with a madness to their method. First, they posit a counterfactual—say, “diversity is our strength”—and then they argue it as if it were prima facie true. Should you object, they bombard you with insults and imprecations, calling your intelligence and, even more, your moral fiber into question. And once you’ve accepted their unexamined premises, if only out of politeness and conflict avoidance, they beat you to death with them.

So it is with the Kavanaugh confirmation. Does anyone not born yesterday truly think this entire shameful stunt just happened? Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, who as he ages more and more resembles an interrogator from 1984, promised total war right from the start, on the grounds that the Republicans might well do unto the Democrats as Democrats always do unto Republicans, and therefore they need to be stopped....
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Note how Schumer contemptuously avoids addressing the feigned concerns proffered by the CBS hosts. Instead, he demonizes Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society as if he and they were representative of some red-diaper baby cell operation skulking around in the darkness, instead of a prominent conservative legal think tank. In other words, Schumer and his fellow travelers extend not a shred of good will to their political antagonists, instead ascribing to them only the basest possible motives—in other words, motives exactly like their own.
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There is more.

This is the modern Democrat party.  You get the impression they think they are on a mission from God if they believed in him instead of booing him at their convention.  Fraudulent and bad faith attacks abound in their circus surrounding judicial nominations.  They are willing to throw out the constitution and use an incoherent charge from a woman to try to kill a nomination because they think, without proof that the nominee might make it harder for them to kill babies in the womb.