You’re seeing a Supreme Court nomination delayed by allegations of sexual harassment you saw women rise up as activists in opposition to the immigration ban. You’re seeing a conversation happening between industries about what to do about sexual harassment. A time in which angry women powered the single largest one-day political demonstration in the country’s history, the Women’s March, and then did it again the next year with almost no organization in which women led the charge against a travel ban including putting some of the first legal obstacles in its way in which women led the activism that helped to prevent the ACA from being repealed in the Spring of 2017 that women’s anger has driven enough of them to run for office this year that we have historic numbers of female candidates for Senate, gubernatorial, and legislative positions that women’s anger at pervasive sexual harassment and abuse in a variety of industries has led to the exposure of lots of apparently serial predators and the organizing of women - not just in the highly-paid echelons where you have Harvey Weinstein, but the McDonald’s workers who are striking in response to pervasive sexual harassment. However, we can also look at a country in which women’s anger has been one of the motivating forces behind one of the great transformative progressive movements of our time, Black Lives Matter. I still see us as being in a moment of incredibly powerful political change, precipitated by women who are willing to be angry right now and women who have been angry throughout our history.

Political progress is being made all around, even if part of this story is going to be a long-term serious loss in the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, we don’t know what the end of that story’s going to be.

We’re getting a view of the Republican party’s willingness to defend and overlook the stories of assault of women. That delay, whether or not it results in his withdrawal or loss of the confirmation, is creating its own political result. There are so many foregrounding steps that get us to the fact that allegations of sexual assault brought by women are both working to delay and complicate the confirmation of a man to the Supreme Court who would create long-lasting legal impediments to all kinds of gendered, racial, and economic equality. RT: Well it depends on what you count as ‘working.’ This story goes back so far.

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