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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please. Stop whining. Yer man tanked his political career. I bet even Cato will dump him soon. [/quote]
He tanked his reputation. His career will be fine. Georgetown won’t recind their offer, although I’m sure they hope he decides not to come. As long as he has got Koch money behind him, he will always find a home. [/quote]

I'm not even sure that he tanked his reputation.  The 'affirmative action for me but not for thee' conservatives have no problem with what he said.  And I'm not sure there are that many people on the left who know him and think he's a brilliant guy.

Even if GTown did rescind his offer, he'd just become a right wing media star because he was 'cancelled' and probably be the president of Hillsdale this time next year. [/quote]
He’s tanked his reputation in the legal profession at the very least, which is actually quite a big deal in those circles. [b]You don’t see a lot of prominent legal scholars defending him and the obvious reason is that nobody wants to be professionally associated as supporting someone who has made what are now well known racist public statements about two Supreme Court judges. [/b]They would fear potential damage to their own careers. I imagine he’s getting a lot of private messages of support, but the only public supper he’s getting is from partisan media.

Similarly, Georgetown is in a tough spot now. They won’t rescind, but they screwed themselves reputationally with a significant group of people who the school would like to visit for lectures and place their graduates in clerkships with.

But otherwise, he’s set himself up for lifetime employment in right wing circles. [/quote]

You don't see them defending him because he made those comments a couple of days ago.  Let see where things are at a month from now or even two weeks from now or even this time next week.  I guarantee they will have all moved on and things will be back to normal.

To fair, I'm sure a handful of conservatives do *genuinely* disapprove of his comments. But in reality most just don't want to be associated with someone currently getting large scale blowback (even if they agree with him).

His prior comments about Sotomayor clearly had no negative impact...I mean he got the GTown position after all, and it was clearly not an issue. And although this just reveals the racism on the right (and the swampiness of the DC left), it is what it is.

Ilya will be fine.  However, hopefully he does speak in an open forum at GTown where his views are challenged - and someone asks him to clarify whether he believes Coney Barrett is a 'lesser' appointment given Trump declared his was going to appoint a woman and there were clearly conservative white men more qualified than she was. [/quote]

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