What I’m especially interested in hearing about is Sen. Blackburn’s experience serving on the Senate Judiciary Committee during the confirmation hearings for now-Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
I was enamored with the way Sen. Blackburn threw down the gauntlet against her leftist colleagues, faux feminist groups, and special interests who feign interest in supporting women, but only those who walk in lockstep with their progressive agenda. They have zero interest in listening to, respecting, or elevating women who are center-right, or heaven forbid, independent thinkers. (We call this “Progressive Privilege.”)
Some of my favorite quotes during the hearings came from Sen. Blackburn:
“It is so discouraging to me to see groups on the left say we want diversity, but let that diversity come from a woman who is on the political right and it's like their heads explode.”
“[The left does] not believe that all women deserve to have the opportunity to have a seat at the table. It is only certain women.”
“It's the politics of personal destruction.”
“This is a lot of historical firsts, and they are choosing intellectual isolation as opposed to having viewpoint diversity, simply because she is not a woman of the left.”
“Conservative women are accustomed to being ridiculed and mocked and diminished, and questioned, and not trusted, which is what the mainstream press and the left will do to conservative women."
“But as we saw from Judge Barrett this week, conservative women are a pretty sturdy bunch, and we don’t cower and we don’t give in.”
