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Donald Trump Jr., Dinesh D’Souza, and a right-wing blog’s slut-shaming take on Christine Blasey Ford‘s high school make for quite the nauseating mash-up, and sadly, it’s not the answer to some hypothetical “what’s the worst Republicans have to offer” challenge.
Don Jr. retweeted a D’Souza tweet saying that “No one in the media is covering the culture of hookups and binge drinking the accuser was part of. Here’s what they’re trying to cover up.” The tweet links a post on a blog called “Cult of the First Amendment,” drawing on the yearbooks of Holton-Arms, the school Ford attended.
The article posts photos allegedly from Ford’s high school yearbook that relate to drinking and sex — although nowhere in the messages is Ford herself actually mentioned as taking part in such activities. [...]
“The resistance media has been singularly focused on Brett Kavanaugh’s high school yearbooks, which imply that he got drunk and threw up,” the post states. “There’s no need to imply anything from the Holton-Arms yearbooks. It’s all there in focus, and the written word too. All of the sordid details as approved for publication by a ‘look the other way’ faculty.”
That’s a fun little slide from what Kavanaugh’s yearbooks imply he did himself to what Ford’s yearbooks imply some of her classmates did. Got that? Kavanaugh was a heavy drinker who Ford credibly alleges sexually assaulted her, but hey, everyone, look over there! Ford’s classmates drank and had sex! Activities, by the way, that don’t make it acceptable to pin someone to a bed, cover her mouth, and try to tear her clothes off.
That right-wing blogs are going to write this stuff is predictable if disgusting. That a low-life like Dinesh D’Souza would tweet it is predictable if disgusting. (But remember when he was supposed to be some kind of conservative intellectual? Yeah.) Here what we have, though, is the son of the sitting president of the United States, one of his father’s frequent political surrogates, retweeting it. And that is something especially disgusting.