A conservative Washington Post columnist joked Thursday that GOP senators are acting "hysterical" over what they consider the mistreatment of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
"They are so emotional, almost hysterical," the Post's Jennifer Rubin told an MSNBC panel led by host Ari Melber. "I would make a joke about it, that they're behaving as if it's their time of the month, but this is very, very serious."
Rubin noted that viewers have witnessed a "transformation" among the Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee from the "respectful" all-male contingent who initially did not attack Dr. Christine Blasey Ford to a group of men who have made "women the object of their ire and their malice."
She went on to say that the change in tone is both a "deliberate strategy" to embolden their "mostly-male, mostly-white, mostly non-college-educated base" and evidence that they have become unhinged — all at "the expense of women."
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