Meacham on Kavanaugh: We Saw the ‘Victory of Tribalism’ Yesterday

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MEACHAM: "And the Constitution was written for moments like this. It assumed that we were driven by appetite and ambition. The Framers made things the way they are because they made a very safe and good bet that’s paid off that we will screw things up far more often than we get them right. So, I think — look, from a historical point of view, this is important and telling about the nature of the moment because there are a couple of different things and we can talk about them. But in the broadest, broadest sense, you know, our resilience is there. That does not take account of the human drama and the cultural moment that we’re in where people are having a reckoning about these kinds of offenses. Quickly, on the broad point, what we saw yesterday was in many ways the victory of tribalism, a fundamental instinctive impulse to believe that which you wish to believe because your fellow tribesmen believe it over a fairly American openness to search for the truth."