CNN’s Carmon: Anger from Kavanaugh Nomination Led to Dem Wave Where a Record Number of Women Were Elected

RUSH EXCERPT:

CARMON: “I think the lesson we keep learning again and again is that the people who are at least accused of sexual violence are not just the person who is jumping out of the bush, it’s not just the person who is supposedly coming across the border, it’s people at the very highest precincts of power. I think that the Kavanaugh hearing was a reminder for a lot of people that the allegations against him show that these are the people who are making the decisions that shape our lives, they are people who are making our laws, they are shaping our culture and this year proved that me too was not some kind of passing trend, it was something that we are still contending with. The ways in which the highest precincts of power are credibly accused of engaging in this kind of behavior. Now, in the end there were parts of this that felt like deja Vu, right, we had the claerns Thomas hearings in 1991, Anita hill testified in a kind of echo of what we saw this year with Christine blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh and just like with Clarence Thomas Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed and I think that for some people that was a deeply disappointing moment, but the difference was that actually more people believed Christine blasey Ford than believed Anita hill. More people believed Christine blasey Ford than believed Brett Kavanaugh. And with Anita hill, more people believed Clarence Thomas. I think you can make the argument that the kind of movement and fierceness and anger that arose from Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination hearings led to that democratic wave that we saw in November where you had a record number of women who were elected.”