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In reply to the discussion: Clarence Thomas says marriage equality ruling should be overturned [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and I believe Biden and his fellow Democrats should have kept this very unfit person off the court, support for Thomas continued to rise during the hearings, including something like 3/4 of all blacks. Thomas's claim that that the senate confirmation hearings were a "white collar lynching" may have been a disgustingly cynical lie, but he didn't invent what was already an old phrase evoking real attacks on many other black people.
In any case, they didn't have a looking glass into today's era, so didn't know the corruption in the Republican Party would grow and morph it into an authoritarian, fascistic monster. Even Gingrich's language as a "mechanism of control," which infused into the culture the ideas that Democrats were sick, radical liberal traitors and that any press coverage exposing what they were doing was lies from "liberal, elite media", was mostly in the future.