Wow…
(This is an always thought-provoking excerpt from an article that @thunderbolt23 posted by Andrew Sullivan):
“All that is happening now will surely affect who comes forward in the future. A woman violated by a Democrat will be likelier to go public — because it gets results. A woman violated by a Republican will fear she could be easily demonized as a liar, a conspirator, or a fraud, and understandably be reluctant to put herself through that.”
"The right’s key edge on this is, it seems to me, shamelessness; a quality currently reified in “The Supreme Leader”.
“Ted Cruz’s staggering ability to pull off a transparently double standard on Franken and Moore, within a few seconds, is a classic example of a shame-free partisan at work. Drudge’s and Fox’s hysteria about Democratic and Hollywood iniquity is matched only by their celebration of Republican denials. It takes fathoms of cynicism to get away with this and unknown depths of denial to believe it. But the GOP has oodles of both on hand — and certainly more than the Dems.”
“You get the feeling at times that if some Trump voters were to witness a brutal rape right in front of them, the first question they’d ask would be: Is the perpetrator a Republican or a Democrat? And did the victim vote for Hillary?”
Ouch.