What's in It for Christine Blasey Ford?
The 51-year-old research psychologist testified with disarming and convincing simplicity on Thursday.
Until the moment this morning when Dr. Christine Blasey Ford finally surfaced in the flesh, steeling herself for the onerous task of exposing her pain to 11 Republican men, she often seemed less than real, less a person than a symbol, a face concealed by sunglasses in an undated photo. Her searing memories about Brett Kavanaugh, mere words on a computer screen, were shared in the press and parsed on social media—hardly the ideal forums for assessing credibility.
That crucial test came Thursday, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and her acing of that test was perhaps best confirmed, if not inadvertently, by the GOP’s hired female counsel, Rachel Mitchell.
