Scientist, surfer, and survivor of a torturous Senate hearing.
Christine Blasey Ford loves kelp, which to anyone who’s spent much time in the ocean may be the most shocking revelation in, her account of her experiences testifying during Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s 2018 Senate confirmation hearing. She acknowledges that most people, including longtime surfers like herself, get “creeped out” by kelp and its “slippery tendrils that pull at your legs in the water,” but to Ford it’s a “perfect, slimy, living thing.
This slightly goofy yet somehow exemplary confession is quintessential Ford. In an era of widespread posturing, she is unaffected and earnest, which is why her testimony about the high school party during which Kavanaugh and a friend allegedly assaulted her had such impact, though it couldn’t stop Kavanaugh’s eventual confirmation. Ford openswith a dedication to “the letter writers” and a photo of her dining room, overrun with stacks of mail she’s received.
The letters give a better sense of how Ford is viewed than you can get online, where die-hard MAGA-heads and suspiciously defensive men rage on about her “lies.” Even Donald Trumpby her, letting slip to reporters that he found Ford a “very credible witness” and her testimony “very compelling,” before he realized that this was against his best interest and resorted to mocking her instead. “The strange part,” Ford writes, “was that it didn’t feel like I hadn’t been heard.
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