Kevin Drum talks about squandering this moment of awareness of sexual abuse.
There’s a partisan issue here, but there’s also, for lack of a better phrase, an assole issue as well. If you’re fundamentally a decent human being, like Franken, you apologize. Then you get investigated. Then you might resign, because lots of your fellow decent human beings think you should.
But if you’re an asshole, not only do you deny the charges, you do your best to smear the accusers. That’s what Moore and Trump have done. This gives your fellow assholes the cover they need to back off while they “wait for more evidence.”
The result is that the more decent you are, the more likely you are to pay the price for your sexual misconduct. The more of an asshole you are, the less likely you’ll pay any price.
But such moments of probity and duplicity matter not to PervPool. We will take our winnings and buy a Re-elect Frank Underwood t-shirt. We are so ironic we make hipsters cry.
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