Gehrke: Kavanaugh hearing likely to be more about politics, not uncovering the truth

I’d just started college when the infamous Clarence Thomas hearings kicked off, and I remember spending hours watching in utter amazement as the drama unfolded.

It was, in many respects, a national embarrassment — with Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch squarely at the center of it — and it sliced the country wide open.

At least we never will have to go through that again. Or so I thought.

The parallels between those 1991 Anita Hill hearings and the inquest scheduled for next week, where Christine Blasey Ford is expected to detail how nominee Brett Kavanaugh allegedly attempted to rape her when they were in high school, are glaring.