Trouble is that it's a problem for many of his closest advisers and surrogates, no?https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/785457945186361344 …
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Hell, many currently serving female members of Congress have stories, which says interns and staffers must have far, far more.
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That norm held until Bill Clinton. With Bill, the GOP politicized what had long been tacitly ignored.
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That's why Larry Flynt's threats worked. He made it really clear if sexual misconduct was politicized, many male politicos would be hurt.
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Curiously, somehow Denny Hastert's sexual misconduct was excused when hetero misconduct became, briefly, politicized.
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Since Flynt, it seems the norm of ignoring heterosexual misconduct has been restored. So Trump could run "safely" in spite of years of same.
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But someone--we still don't know who leaked that tape, GOP or Dem!!--broke the norm again last week. So now what happens to others?
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Perhaps the funniest is Schwarzenegger, a known groper himself, getting credit for disavowing Trump. How does he get to do that????
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Anyway, it seems we're still at gotcha levels of response to sexual misconduct, not eliminating it even from (esp from) halls of Congress.
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Addendum to this: I should mention Roger Stone's presumed role in taking down Client 9. The one other thing sexual misconduct politicized.
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Of course, taking out Spitzer by politicizing his hetero sexual misconduct was about business. The banks, after all, must be saved.
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But if Trump is going to hang with Roger Stone, he can't very well complain about having his own sexual misconduct get politicized.
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Like the norm in the music industry, like the norm in investment banking.
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Sure. But in those industries one is not hired based on perceived character but on brand. (Yes, character=brand)
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But no one WANTS their musician or investment banker to have morals. Their industry rewards the opposite.
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But I think it's great that Trump is going to bring up rape accusations against politicians who oppose him.
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Objectively, Trump is doing more to address rape culture than Clinton. A very weird sentence, I know.
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I've been underwhelmed by all this. Trump and B. Clinton + many other all have rape accusatoins against them.
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As soon as
#longDongThomas (his own name) was confirmed ANY sexual behaviour of politicians was normalized.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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DC, the willing babe capital of america, shiny-eyed, from all over the country .. a big adventure for all concerned
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