brett kavanaugh s vote won t be in play the same way which will pull the court to the right on social policy issues and probably executive power issues. we know he won t reveal too much and the one thing that democrats could count on if they can count on anything is something new coming out. something surprising, for example, like what happened with clarence thomas but that didn t sink him and i think that what we ll see is democrats trying to get him to reveal himself but a certain inevitability here. and the other thing we should keep in mind here is the context. for a generation republicans have been able to build up and to make a case to the republican base that the supreme court