Why we came to rage over obscure judicial appointments

Give this much to President Trump — he learns from experience.

One thing that he learned from the battle to seat Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court is that the only way to pick a conservative who can sit on that body is to nominate a woman. This is the only way he can be totally sure that he and she will not be sandbagged in the course of the process by someone the nominee has never encountered or perhaps even heard of, who will insist that the nominee had talked dirty to her (Anita Hill vs. Clarence Thomas in 1991) or had tried to rape her (not very determinedly) when they were fifteen and in prep school (Christine Blasey Ford vs. Brett Kavanaugh in 2018).