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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Monday, October 1, 2018

Trump Doesn't Like Drinkers

Buried in Jon Chait's piece about Trump's casual misogyny is Trump freestyling about Kavanaugh's drinking problem.  Trump's brother was an alcoholic and Trump himself never touches a drop, allegedly because of his brother's experience and early death.  Trump doesn't trust people who drink or have facial hair (Exhibit 2,567,432 why I will never have a job in the Trump Administration).  He wouldn't hire John Bolton at first because of the mustache.  Seriously.

If Trump convinces himself that Kavanaugh is still a drunk, I could see him - fickle boy that he is - abandoning Kavanaugh well before the Federalist Society apparatchiks do.

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