Editorial WriterJeff Flake loves decorum, but it doesn’t look like it was decorous behavior that moved him to reconsider a vote that could change the country’s future. Was it two women in an elevator, yelling at him? “Don’t look away from me!” said Gallagher, as Flake glanced at the ground. But he could, it seemed, take a tentative step toward showing Gallagher, Archila, Christine Blasey Ford and survivors everywhere that what happened to them does matter. Women are getting hurt, and those men in suits who nodded along with Kavanaugh yesterday aren’t doing anything to stop it any more than their predecessors did 27 years ago.

Source: Washington Post September 28, 2018 21:11 UTC