powers his politics on aggrievement and however real is seized upon by his base and his supporters including those at fox news. fox news amplifies things they see on social media, fox news pushes it out there and other people see it and it spreads outward from there and it goes to the president and this is how it works. this is the cycle. this is why he s president of the united states, not because of home alone 2 which again is not a chas classic because this cycle exists and he s powered by it. and what is remarkable is donald trump jr. seemed to be having fun with it but he called it absolutely pathetic and part of a lengthy post on instagram reads in part, imagine being so triggered that you can t leave a christmas movie alone without editing. this is what we re up against in 2020. this is the filter by which people receive their news. this is why it is not a fair fight. but this is also why we will win. jane, the hypocrisy is glaring. he s relying on a lie.
it s in her new book just out. in her column she writes about the parallels between that confirmation fight and the current impeachment inquiry, and i quote, from the conservative vantage point, perhaps the greatest similarity is the deep sense of aggrievement about the motives of kavanaugh s critics then and trump s now, those seeking to impeach the president over his conduct with respect to ukraine have long been searching desperately for something, anything with which to take down the designated victim. we re happy to have ruth marcus with us here tonight. by day she is deputy editorial page editor and columnist for the washington post. she also happens to be the author of supreme ambition: brett kavanaugh and the conservative takeover. it is great to have you, and i have to tell you, ruth, i have a democratic friend who says here s the only viewer s guide you need to what s about to happen.
supreme court. it s in her new book just out. in her column she writes about the parallels between that confirmation fight and the current impeachment inquiry, and i quote, from the conservative vantage point, perhaps the greatest similarity is the deep sense of aggrievement about the motives of kavanaugh s critics then and trump s now, those seeking to impeach the president over his conduct with respect to ukraine have long been searching desperately for something, anything with which to take down the designated victim. we re happy to have ruth marcus with us here tonight. by day she is deputy editorial page editor and columnist for the washington post. she also happens to be the author of supreme ambition: brett kavanaugh and the conservative takeover. it is great to have you, and i have to tell you, ruth, i have a democratic friend who says here s the only viewer s guide you need to what s about to happen. and he points to a picture of jeff flake s concerned face.
and in her column she writes about the parallels between that confirmation fight and the current impeachment inquiry, and i quote. from the conservative vantage point, perhaps the greatest similarity is the deep sense of aggrievement about the motives of kavanaugh s critics then and trump s now. those seeking to impeach the president over his conduct with respect to ukraine have long been searching desperately for something, anything with which to take down the designated victim. we re happy to have ruth marcus with us here tonight. by day, she is deputy editorial page editor and columnist for the washington post. as i might have mentioned, she also happens to be the author of supreme ambition: brett kavanaugh and the conservative takeover. it is great to have you, and i have to tell you, ruth, i have a democratic friend who says, here s the only viewer s guide you need to what s about to happen. and he points to a picture of jeff flake s concerned face.
plank and letting republicans decide how they re going to portray that and it d be probably as a refusal to carry out her duty. i really look at it that way. let me go back to john on another question, and this is the question which is the cutter. will this affect the 2020 election, what happened today, when he will be called out next year, next week. it is all likely to going happen by a partisan vote, what effect would that happen on the election next year, the impeachment of donald trump? i think there are two things likely to happen. number one, he gets the aggrievement, he gets what he always like to do which is paint himself as a victim and say he was exonerated by the senate. we ve heard that before. he s going to add that to the arsenal of the democrat and bureaucratic state. every mob leader that walks