Imagine you were Kavenaugh when you decided to pursue the SC

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9. The incredibly bad judgement is what's so striking to me.

Reportedly a lot of very strong conservatives, which he obviously is, are very lacking in capacity for self awareness. They can see plenty of faults in others but cannot turn the lens around to evaluate themselves and their own behavior. If he's like that, that would explain a lot.

Then there are other characteristics of hard-core conservatism itself, which tend to include a profound dishonesty with self as much as the world that warps understanding of everything, as above including morals, ethics and religious precepts as they apply to them.

Add a lifetime of feeling entitled, cleverness and sharpness but never wisdom, the arrogance of a man who's been lionized and pandered to for over a decade, and the rest of his character -- including the good he no doubt prides himself on, and I'm imagining a guy who could bushwhack himself by subjecting a very long trail of misdeeds and inadequacies to intense scrutiny and never see it coming.