Everyone should be talking about Bruce Castor’s bizarre speech in the Senate

In today’s impeachment hearings, former President Donald Trump’s attorney Bruce Castor argued before the Senate that white men in America should be assured of power, privilege and success no matter how bumbling and immoral they may be.

Castor didn’t make that argument literally or in words. Indeed, from his speech, it is unclear that he is acquainted with words, or with arguments, or with an ounce of self-awareness. Nonetheless, his very incoherence made the point with a mush-mouthed, meandering eloquent anti-eloquence.

Castor confusedly invoked Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse, insisting that, “There seem to be some pretty smart jurists in Nebraska.” He babbled that “something bad is potentially in the wind and we expect our United States Senators not reacting to the popular will,” a bizarre aside which prompted even Trump shill Alan Dershowitz to exclaim in disgust, “I have no idea why he’s saying what he’s saying.” Castor drank liberally from a plastic water bottle as he spoke, and the loud crinkling sounds provided a moment of relative sense amid the blundering obfuscation.