Like so many Americans who witnessed Christine Blasey Ford give testimony of her abuse, I found myself mesmerized and triggered by the proceedings. I was horrified at the way that the highest function of advice and consent has degenerated into a self-serving spectacle of tyrannical power and gang-rape mentality, determined to confirm an alleged sexual offender, a probable perjurer, maybe an alcoholic and certainly an extreme ideologue, to the highest court in the land. I became ...