Weaponizing sexual violence

By elevating Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court of the United States, the Republican party has weaponized sexual violence in its culture war against the Democratic party.

Brett Kavanaugh is not only someone who evidently attempted to commit one rape, he is someone who likely participated in the systematic rape of young women by a crew of self-entitled Georgetown prep students.  How they got away with it involves the shaming of these young women (witness how Donald Trump Jr. implied that Julie Swetnick’s continued presence at such parties was an invitation for her own rape).  But there is also an element of class conflict that Kavanaugh and his classmates exploited.

This manifested itself in the signing of a statement by hundreds of graduates from Holton Arms prep school in support of Christine Blasey Ford.  These many years later, they have come to realize that they were looked down by Kavanaugh and his Georgetown prep classmates.  Take the example of “Renate Alumnius” (sic).  The evident truth behind Kavanaugh’s cruel joke–implying that Renate Schroeder was “easy”–was denied under oath by Kavanaugh.  Kavanaugh did this because he understands that perjury is better than admitting in 2018 to his enduring belief that Georgetown prep students were superior in economic and social class status over Holton Arms students.  In other words, that Holton Arms girls were a fair target because they were of a lower class.

To Kavanaugh, the degenerate, Holton Arms was an inferior school peopled by girls inferior to the boys of Georgetown prep, with its toxic jock culture.  No wonder Kavanaugh claims to have no recollection of his assault on a Holton Arms student:  in his mind, the attempted rape was insignificant as the situation did not involve anyone of importance.

It is a complicated mix of imagined class superiority on the part of Kavanaugh and that his habitual drunkenness made him act out the entitlement to do whatever he wanted.  The rule of self-entitled White males over all.  This is what the GOP has foisted on the republic.