“Outrageous” disruptions by Democrats and left-wing protesters during the first day of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing “really turn[s] off the American voters,” attorney Harmeet Dhillon warned Tuesday on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.”

“It was a 2016 protesting audience with a 2020 aspirational Senate Democratic leadership there,” said Dhillon, founder of the Dhillon Law Group Inc. and Republican National Committeewoman for California. “I thought this was outrageous. It really turns off the American voters.”

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Even before President Donald Trump nominated Kavanaugh (pictured above) on July 9 to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, Senate Democrats were plotting how to stall and otherwise prevent the traditional confirmation process from going forward.

Democratic senators have claimed Kavanaugh’s confirmation should be postponed until after the November midterm elections occurred, thus giving Democrats a chance to retake the majority and scuttle the nomination altogether.

The first day of the hearing devolved into bouts of histrionics from Democratic senators and liberal activists in the audience alike who interrupted the hearing’s opening proceedings more than 60 times. Numerous activists and hecklers in the audience were removed from the room throughout the morning and afternoon.

A group of women even protested outside the hearing wearing iconic costumes resembling ones from Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a dystopian novel-turned-TV series in which women in a totalitarian society are enslaved as child-bearing “handmaids.”

Dhillon insisted that these “losers in the ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ costumes” should be “protesting the Senate,” not Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings.

“They should be protesting legislators who don’t do their jobs. Instead, it’s default now they treat the Supreme Court like a branch of the government that makes the laws, not interprets them,” Dhillon lamented. “This is just playing out the clock as much as they can.”

Trump himself weighed in on Tuesday, tweeting, “The Brett Kavanaugh hearings for the future Justice of the Supreme Court are truly a display of how mean, angry, and despicable the other side is. They will say anything, and are only … looking to inflict pain and embarrassment to one of the most highly renowned jurists to ever appear before Congress. So sad to see!”

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Former pollster Mark Penn, who served as 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s chief strategist and pollster during her 2008 presidential campaign, admitted that “what was good politics for the Democrats isn’t good policy for everybody because the truth of the matter is now that these hearings take down the court.”

“[Liberals] politicize the nominations in a way that the court looks like another political branch,” Penn added. “And unless there’s a bipartisan agreement on future nomination hearings, we’re really tearing down our institutions. And I agree that we’ve got to put policy and good institutions and supporting our country above politics. That is not going to happen in this hearing.”

Gregg Nunziata, a former chief nominations counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that Democrats resorted to such hysterical stalling tactics because “clearly they don’t have the votes to stop Kavanaugh” and “they don’t have the arguments to do it, either.”

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“I think what Brett Kavanaugh is speaking about in his opening statement tonight is a vision of the court that the American people respect and understand — judges that apply the law as written and don’t advance narrow ideological agendas. And that’s contrary to what some of these Democrats want,” Nunziata said.

Ingraham rebuked the Democrats as well, saying that “today’s Kavanaugh spectacle was revealing in that it shows the Democrats’ enduring rage over the election of 2016.”

“They just cannot get over it,” Ingraham said. “But for all the chatter that Trump has coarsened our conversation and Trump has upended protocol, what do you call that?”