Feminists gave up the high ground in the Bill Clinton era; they can’t get it back

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The funniest story of the year so far has to be the one in the Washington Post this past Sunday about the complaints of 11 or so women who profess indignation that their claims of having been groped, propositioned, or disrespected by our esteemed current president seem not to have landed at all, despite Harvey Weinstein’s scandal.

Worse, the women who wrote the piece took it all seriously, so it is not until far down in the story that they seem to have found the truth: “The same factor that helped Clinton survive impeachment and remain in office helped Trump overcome the accusations of misconduct against him,” Elaine Kamarck, a scholar at Brookings, told the reporters. “The fact is, there were bigger issues at play.”

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