There have been many books written about the unpredictable and historic phenomenon that is the Donald Trump presidency. One such book is by Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post, and it is entitled Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover.” Now, of course Trump himself is no fan of the book; he wouldn’t be, as he blasted both the book and the paper the author writes for as “fake news.” However, Trump’s ire is sure to be taken to a whole other whether when he hears about what Marcus has to say about what Trump’s own Supreme Court picks had to say about him behind his back.
Lloyd Green of the Guardian says that Ruth Marcus’s reporting indicates that Trump’s most controversial Supreme Court pick, Brett Kavanaugh, called Trump a “buffoon” during the 2016 election cycle, and Neil Gorsuch, the Justice who filled the Supreme Court seat that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stole from President Barack Obama, called Trump’s undemocratic comments about the judicial branch of the United States government “disheartening” and “demoralizing.” Of course, Trump has dismissed Marcus’s book as “a badly written and researched disaster.” These sentiments do not erase the fact that it is fact-based reporting that produced both the Guardian article and Ruth Marcus’s book, though. Further, it is no secret to anyone that Trump does not read, and therefore is no authority on anything that may be written about him or anyone else.
Of course, none of this really matters. Trump’s lack of morals, his lies, all of it was something the Evangelical right-wing Christians who got him into office were willing to put up with in order to secure a conservative Supreme Court, and to reshape the judiciary for a generation to come. That is what all of this has been about all the time. These people want to turn the clock back, Handmaid’s Tale style, where LGBTQ people are forced back into the closet, minorities know their places, and women are barefoot, pregnant, jobless, uneducated, and under the thumbs of their aggressively controlling husbands. That is the GOP fever dream, and men like Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are well on their way to delivering that America to these people. It is about power and maintaining power structures. Therefore, no matter what Gorsuch and Kavanaugh may have said about Trump behind closed doors, it was worth it to the people who want an America that looks more like 1819 than 2019.
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