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Jackie Calmes: Christine Blasey Ford's memoir isn't about Brett Kavanaugh but it still suggests a #MeToo reckoning

Christine Blasey Ford speaks onstage during ACLU SoCal's Annual Bill of Rights dinner at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on Nov. 17, 2019, in Beverly Hills, California.

Retribution seems to be all the rage these days on the right, given Donald Trump's chilling vow that it will be the driving force of his second term should he win one. So Republicans might have figured that Christine Blasey Ford, in her new memoir, would seek revenge against Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh and others, including Trump, who smeared her for publicly alleging in 2018 that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers in suburban Washington.

Ford isn't vengeful, however. On the first page of

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