"Can Anything Stop the Confirmation of Jeff Sessions?" - Slate
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/11/jeff_sessions_racism_sadly_doesn_t_matter.html
This is worth reading - I am copying the end of it, below
"I wrote during the campaign about the dangers of Donald Trumps slick efforts to decouple his language from his positions, and the ways in which he persistently argued that his words in no way reflected or mirrored his convictions or beliefs. He has done an equally deft job in arguing that his actions tooranging from his failure to release his taxes, his behavior toward women, his refusal to abide by the norms of good businessare not indicative of his character. Trumps absolute mastery of the argument that neither ones words nor deeds are good predictors of ones convictions has now spread to the people with whom he has chosen to surround himself. Like him, they are distanced from everything they have either said or done with claims that nobody has the right to pass judgment; that we have no idea whats in a persons heart; that the real villains here are the ones who assume a person saying and doing racist things is racist. I cannot help but wonder what would happen if the entire American justice system were premised on the now-commonplace assumption that you can know nothing about anyone despite his words and behavior.
This goes far beyond gaslighting. This is the suggestion that there is no wrongdoing that is ever provable (unless your name is Hillary Clinton).
The final irony of this new era in which we find ourselvesin which the only true measure of a mans character is what his friends say about him on Fox Newsis that more and more, when called upon to explain Donald Trumps dangerous and divisive choices in his first weeks as president-elect, we are ordered by his late-to-the-party boosters to simply stop worrying and trust him.
No seriously. We should stand down and just let him unite us. Never mind the divisive words, nor the deeds guaranteed to foment precisely the kind of hate and mistrust we now endure daily. They dont matter. They are just words. Just deeds. We owe it to our country to give him a chance. Trust him. Trust Bannon. Trust Sessions. What could go wrong?"