Trump says it's a "scary time for young men in America." He doesn't know the half of it
"Are you scared?"
I asked my unmarried and almost-30 son that question as we had a sushi lunch.
"Working on a column?" he responded.
Guilty. My son plays hard to get. In the fashion of his fellow millennials, he doesn't want to be quoted unless the interview is being podcast.
I assured him that I was only seeking a grassroots response to President Trump's latest effort to make Americans feel afraid of one another.
"It's a very scary time for young men in America," the president told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House complex, "when you can be guilty of something you may not be guilty of. This is a very difficult time."
Trump was speaking on behalf of his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The day after university professor Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Kavanaugh forcibly groped her in high school, President Trump called her a "very credible witness."
But by this Monday, as Republicans detected that the controversy was energizing their base barely a month before the November midterm elections, Trump had turned on Ford, accused her of participating in a "hoax" that "all made" up and "fabricated" by Democrats.
"Think of your son. Think of your husband," Trump told a rally in Southaven, Miss., last week. He also mentioned that he has had "many false allegations" against him. Well, he's had the allegations anyway. Their truthfulness is still a matter of hot debate.
But a "very scary time?" Hey, Mr. President, welcome to my world.
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