“Grab them by the p*ssy. You can do anything.”
I wrote about his first wife saying in a sworn statement that he pulled out fistfuls of her hair and raped her. I argued that no one paying attention to the campaign could be surprised by his bragging that he could commit sexual assault. The question was whether the Republican establishment would do something.
That was all before one woman after another told her story of alleged assault or harassment by Trump.
The woman who said he assaulted her on a plane. The girl who said he forcibly kissed her outside an elevator. The journalist who said he pushed her against a wall and stuck his tongue in her mouth at Mar-a-Lago. The teen pageant contestants who confirmed he wasn’t joking when he said he’d go into their dressing rooms to see them naked. The dozens of other women who told their stories back in 2016, and since.
It didn’t matter…
The reality is that it’s not disqualifying to have groped, harassed or raped a woman. This is what powerful men look like. This is what success is.
I get that it’s quaint to be angry about the normalization of the abuse of women when Trump has promised much broader destruction. But it’s enraging that Republicans have abandoned what minimal standards they once had.
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