{"id":504935,"date":"2021-05-13T16:35:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T20:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=504935"},"modified":"2021-05-13T16:35:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T20:35:17","slug":"atlantic-writer-suggests-kavanaugh-would-have-been-in-a-cult-or-street-gang-if-he-grew-up-somewhere-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/atlantic-writer-suggests-kavanaugh-would-have-been-in-a-cult-or-street-gang-if-he-grew-up-somewhere-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic Writer Suggests Kavanaugh Would Have Been In \u2018A Cult Or Street Gang\u2019 If He Grew Up Somewhere Else"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fatlantic-writer-suggests-kavanaugh-would-have-been-in-a-cult-or-street-gang-if-he-grew-up-somewhere-else%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=504935&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1026685320-scaled-e1600707973339.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>An Atlantic writer suggested Thursday that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh would have been in \u201ca cult or street gang\u201d if he \u201cgrew up somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Staff writer McKay Coppins speculated about other routes the Supreme Court justice might have taken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2021\/06\/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court\/618717\/\">in a piece<\/a> exploring whether Kavanaugh is \u201cout for revenge.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/09\/23\/kavanaugh-confirmation-scotus-christine-ford\/\">(RELATED: Here\u2019s A Timeline Of The 2018 Kavanaugh Confirmation)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Kavanaugh had grown up somewhere else, he might have joined a cult or a street gang,\u201d Coppins wrote. \u201cBecause he grew up in Bethesda, he <a href=\"https:\/\/yaledailynews.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/16\/while-kavanaugh-was-a-member-dke-flew-under-the-radar\/\" data-omni-click=\"r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'4',r'618717'\">pledged a fraternity at Yale<\/a>. The elite pedigree of Delta Kappa Epsilon\u2014past members include five presidents and a handful of Supreme Court justices\u2014belied its essential frattishness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo join, Kavanaugh reportedly endured a series of ritual humiliations, including an order to hop around campus in a leather football helmet while grabbing his crotch and chanting, \u201cI\u2019m a geek, I\u2019m a geek, I\u2019m a power tool. \/ When I sing this song, I look like a fool,&#8217;\u201d Coppins wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic writer also suggested that Kavanaugh\u2019s love of sports taught him the \u201cvirtues of partisanship.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.595679012346\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Conservatives want to weaponize his bitterness. Liberals are inviting him over for dinner. And a generation of jurisprudence could come down to an unnerving question: Is Brett Kavanaugh out for revenge?<\/p>\n<p>My new profile, in the June issue of The Atlantic: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w7LRrwby3v\">https:\/\/t.co\/w7LRrwby3v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mckaycoppins\/status\/1392817152869244928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"dropcap\"><span class=\"smallcaps\">\u201cBrett Michael Kavanaugh <\/span>learned the virtues of partisanship long before he discovered politics,\u201d Coppins wrote. \u201cAs a kid, he rooted fanatically for the teams he inherited, the Redskins and the Bullets; as a teen, he developed a close-knit group of friends <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/28\/us\/politics\/kavanaugh-georgetown-prep.html\" data-omni-click=\"r'article',r'',d,r'intext',r'3',r'618717'\">at Georgetown Prep<\/a> and performed his allegiance with try-hard zeal.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/07\/kavanaugh-handmaid-amy-coney-barrett-conservatives-supreme-court\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Kavanaugh Sleaze Machine Is Back\u2019: Conservatives Slam WaPo Story Calling Amy Coney Barrett A Handmaid)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">\u201cAlthough Kavanaugh was not a standout athlete, he relished being part of a team\u2014the nicknames and the inside jokes, the camaraderie born of a common cause, no matter how pointless or juvenile,\u201d Coppins continued. \u201cWhen his friends set a goal of drinking 100 kegs during the year leading up to graduation, few gave more to the effort than Kavanaugh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">\u201cAcquaintances prone to armchair psychoanalysis would later speculate that his fixation on the fraternal grew out of his status as an only child,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2018He\u2019s very good in groups of male friends,\u2019 a former classmate told me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coppins did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Atlantic writer suggested Thursday that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh would have been in \u201ca cult or street gang\u201d if he \u201cgrew up somewhere else.\u201dStaff writer McKay Coppins speculated &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278093,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1026685320-scaled-e1600707973339.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Atlantic Writer Suggests Kavanaugh Would Have Been In \u2018A Cult Or Street Gang\u2019 If He Grew Up Somewhere Else","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1026685320-scaled-e1600707973339.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Atlantic Writer Suggests Kavanaugh Would Have Been In \u2018A Cult Or Street Gang\u2019 If He Grew Up Somewhere Else","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}