Plowing Through

The Republican process was the agenda.

- Rebecca Traister

AS MAJORITY LEADER Mitch McConnell put it, the goal for his party was to “plow right through” the sexual-assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh—and by extension, the women making them—and confirm the guy already. “I don’t think we should put up with it, to be honest with you,” Senator Orrin Hatch complained on the eve of Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony before the Judiciary Committee. Or as Hatch blustered at Kavanaugh’s initial hearing, in response to a female protester who’d risen to shout about the life-and-death consequences should the Supreme Court repeal health-care reform, “We shouldn’t have to put up with this kind of stuff.”