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Those who knew Brett Kavanaugh during his youth have described his hard-drinking habits — but he portrayed himself differently during his Senate hearing

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh made claims about his drinking habits during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday that do not match up with accounts from people who knew him in high school and college.

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 "I thought today, he evaded questions and he kept trying to turn the question around to 'but I studied really hard,'" Brookes said. "Well you know what? I studied hard too. I went to [Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania]. I did very well at Yale. I also drank to excess many nights with Brett Kavanaugh. The two things are not mutually exclusive."

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You don't have to be an alcoholic, i.e. have an addictive disease, to be a heavy drinker, a mean drunk, someone who has blackouts. Kavanaugh was a mean drunk in school. Many witnesses. He still drinks. Odds are pretty good he will have had mean drunk episodes since school, and odds are good there are witnesses to these. They should speak up. But alcohol problems are notoriously hidden and swept under the rug and excused for otherwise good, even great, people.

This should be a no brainer. It's a job interview, for gods sake. But ideology is the fuel here. Ugly and sad results.