Vilification is a form of psychological terrorism. Because the fury displayed by those leveling the charges is so relentless and uncompromising, it carries its own threat.

The left’s smear tactics have come on full display during the surfeit of attacks on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Whether you support or oppose this SCOTUS nomination, the tactics being used are more extreme even than during the Clarence Thomas hearings.

But as we know, they are nothing new, and Democrats will continue to use them until the American people scream “Enough!” — because they are effective. The real goal is psychological terrorism—that is, engaging in a scorched-earth effort to destroy the target, and in so doing intimidating anyone willing to enter public service, or even just support a public figure that does not parrot the politically correct line.

The charges do not need to be true, or even credible. People do not recoil because of the charges themselves (although, as we see, the left spares no effort to dream up the worst accusations they can think of). People recoil out of fear.

After what has been one of the most shameful political spectacles in history, the confirmation process of Judge Brett Kavanaugh is nearly at a close. While at this press time, I have no idea what the outcome is, I do know that our country has hit an all-time low.

Our leftist friends can only see one possibility in the allegations against Judge Kavanaugh because that is what the narrative demands. Their one and only possibility is that Dr. Ford’s testimony is the unvarnished truth… along with the truth that Judge Kavanaugh waved his willy at some girl at a party, and (my favorite) the truth that as a high school student, he and his friends fed college girls quaaludes to gang rape them at parties- parties the victims would keep going back to, ostensibly because they wanted to be raped again… I guess… I’m not sure how that part of the story works.

In reality there exist, of course, two possibilities. First, that this is the most horrific political hit job in history. That Ms. Ford sees her “civic duty” as fighting against Donald Trump and his minions of evil by any means necessary. If that means excoriating an innocent man in front of his young daughters with a story that is embellished at best or made up at worst, well it is a small price to pay for social justice. But, there is also the possibility that Brett Kavanaugh was indeed a 15-year-old groper of girls. Dismissing the other two allegations as too ridiculous to dignify, let’s pretend… (and I did say pretend) that Ms. Ford’s allegations are 100% true. Let us further speculate that one’s behavior in high school should be germane to fitness for high government office nearly 40 years later.