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Kavanaugh: How The Republican Leadership Broke The Four Rules Of Crisis Management
the Republican leadership has jeopardized its goals through its failure to respect the rules of crisis management:
Recognize the crisis as a crisis
Get out as much information as possible as soon as possible, particularly any negative information
Avoid saying anything that has to be withdrawn
Avoid doing anything that looks like a cover-up
Through failure to adhere to the rules of crisis management, there is now greater-than-zero chance that Kavanaugh will not be confirmed.
Moreover the Republicans have guaranteed that Democrats will be even more energized going into the mid-term elections in November. The Republican brand with women also risks being further weakened.
Perhaps most seriously, through politicizing the nomination process, the authenticity and apolitical character of the Supreme Court has been jeopardized.
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