America's culture wars have just taken a nosedive. Whether Mr Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, sexually assaulted Ms Christine Blasey Ford in the early 1980s is probably unknowable. Some automatically believe Ms Ford's allegations that she was held down on a bed by a drunken Mr Kavanaugh, now 53, and his friend. Others unquestioningly accept Mr Kavanaugh's categorical denial that any such incident took place.
The first tend to be Democrats, the second Republicans.
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