re: #180 ObserverArt

Why even defend it at all then?

Because it works with the audience it was intended for. If any GOP women were made uncomfortable by the prospect that he sexually assaulted a girl in high school, the letter gives them a reason to disbelieve it. It doesn’t have to exonerate him in the eyes of the world. It just has to give them cover and confirmation bias will do the rest.

For those who pay limited attention to politics, they might hear “Kavanaugh accused of being sex creep, accusation refuted by 65 women”, and they can put it down to partisan wrangling.

They’re not trying to convince us.