“Two minute warning,” cried bartender Germaine Bowers, pointing at a small TV in the corner of the Coffeetails bar in Milwaukee displaying CNN and its timer running across the bottom of the screen. “Even Bill Clinton didn’t get a countdown clock,” answered Paul Chier, nursing a morning cocktail. “They’re calling this historic? This crap happens every day.”
Chier, 49, wrote in Bernie Sanders in the last presidential election, unable to stomach either major party candidate. He’d largely made up his mind about the Brett Kavanaugh hearing before it started: “Another politician, another batch of lies, and another embarrassing six months of rhetoric and back-and-forth. It’s going to be a broken record.”