Every woman I know was watching yesterday. And they all felt like this:
The power of the moment — the reason that people cried in airplane seats and called into C-SPAN to tell their own stories of sexual assault — was in seeing Ford tell a story of private pain before a massive public audience.
It was to see her speak, without knowing yet who would believe her.
“16A: Crying. 14B: Crying. 17C: Weeping,” Ron Lieber, a New York Times columnist, wrote on Twitter from a flight headed from New York to Salt Lake City, listing the reactions as passengers watched the hearing on seat-back televisions. “I am one of the criers.”
If all of those women go out and vote on November 6, against every Republican and for every Democrat, this national nightmare would end.
There’d still be lots of crying, but it would be a good and emotionally satisfying crying.