Didn’t watch the Kavanaugh hearings but I followed twitter until 10EST when I went to bed and the consensus on both left and right was that Ford was performing left/female-idiomatic emotion so well the Senate couldn’t possibly confirm him, but by the time I woke up the left/right consensus was Kavanaugh had performed right/male-idiomatic emotion so well they were certainly going to so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Like, twice in two years the fundamental nature and future of America – as a state, a nation, a culture – has radically shifted in a 8-hour long process where everyone assumes it’s shifting leftward for the first 4 hours until it turns out it’s shifting rightward, while every single public figure records their real-time reactions on social media