In the still dark hours of Wednesday morning, a man armed with a gun, a knife, and burglary tools was arrested outside Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home. The man told police that he had come to kill Kavanaugh because of the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that could potentially overturn Roe v. Wade.
Violence by deranged lunatics is a predictable reaction to superheated political rhetoric.
Beginning with Democrats’ shameful conduct during Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, they have attempted to demonize him and gin up anger within their political base about him and the court generally. When protesters at his hearings broke Capitol Police barricades, stormed the steps of the Capitol, and broke through a police line around the Supreme Court, Democrats did not rebuke them.
That was just the beginning. In 2020, when the court confronted another abortion case, then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., threatened Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch directly, shouting to a mob outside the court: “I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind. And you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
The rhetoric escalated until protesters started showing up at the homes of Supreme Court justices. Now, Democratic politicians have quieted down some but not because they oppose these protests. Rather, they have quieted down because, having roused the rabble to action, they seem content to sit by and watch it roil forward under the angry steam they built up.
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