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Mike Hendricks

Mike at Night

Mike Hendricks recently retires as social science, criminal justice instructor at McCook Community College.

Sexual harassment and a done deal?

Friday, October 5, 2018

Although I’m a lifelong Democrat, I found the latest assault on Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee tasteless, opportunistic and politically motivated. I know of very few men who could withstand an FBI investigation into their behaviors during high school and I suspect Brett Kavanaugh is no different. I didn’t like the angry and confrontational defense of himself when faced with the charges brought against him by Christina Blasey Ford because they sounded too much like Clarence Thomas’ defense against Anita Hill‘s charges several years before. But conservatives say their defenses were due to the outrage of being charged for something they didn’t do and I can accept that. If I was accused of something I was innocent of, I would react the same way.

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