The most useless part of the #Resistance

What good are the #Resistance's useless norm worshippers?

Brett Kavanaugh, Mitch McConnell, and Mike Pence.
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What good is the #Resistance if it doesn't actually #resist?

You can see this quandary playing out with the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, whom President Trump hopes to replace with 53-year-old Brett Kavanaugh, a reactionary D.C. Circuit Court judge.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.