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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 3750549" data-attributes="member: 18225"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/opinion/brett-kavanaugh-political-scandals-1990s.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage" target="_blank">Why revisiting the political scandals of the 1990s should temper partisanship today...</a>...&#039;If you are a partisan, an activist, a politics obsessive, any certainty you feel about Brett Kavanaugh right now is probably too strong. And any mystification or bafflement or anger that you feel about someone else’s certainty — how it simply must be cynical, manufactured, malign — should be tempered by a recognition that your own certainty might have to be revised 20 years from now, that how you read the evidence in the heat of a polarized moment might not be the only way to read it, and that not every historical controversy or scandal gets settled cleanly or wrapped up in a neat moralistic bow...&#039;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BrownArmy, post: 3750549, member: 18225"] [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/opinion/brett-kavanaugh-political-scandals-1990s.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage'][B]Why revisiting the political scandals of the 1990s should temper partisanship today...[/B][/URL] ...[U]'[/U]If you are a partisan, an activist, a politics obsessive, any certainty you feel about Brett Kavanaugh right now is probably too strong. And any mystification or bafflement or anger that you feel about someone [I]else’s[/I] certainty — how it simply must be cynical, manufactured, malign — should be tempered by a recognition that your own certainty might have to be revised 20 years from now, that how you read the evidence in the heat of a polarized moment might not be the only way to read it, and that not every historical controversy or scandal gets settled cleanly or wrapped up in a neat moralistic bow...' [/QUOTE]

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