Brett Kavanaugh, Jim Jordan, and the Fog of the Partisan

This week, shortly after Donald Trump announced his nominee for the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the retirement of Anthony Kennedy, a joking hashtag began trending on Twitter. , building on his public introduction at the White House—“For the past seven years, I have coached my daughter’s basketball teams,” Kavanaugh said; “the girls on the team call me ‘Coach K’”—reveled in the notion of Kavanaugh as a family man and a man of faith and an all-around nice guy. A man, in other words, for whom real scandal would be unthinkable. “Brett Kavanaugh,” , “agrees with the 5th dentist who advises AGAINST chewing Trident.” : “Often wore robes to work. Even on casual Fridays.”: “Claimed Ben Affleck was the most authentic Batman.” : “When his daughters begged for Oreos, Kavanaugh bought them Creme Betweens thinking they’d never notice the difference.”