The NOW problem that plagues the Trump-era Right

Published April 3, 2018 4:00am ET



Less than a year into his marriage to his third model wife, Donald Trump had two encounters with women engaged in what former President Dwight Eisenhower might have called the porn-star-and-sex-worker-industrial complex.

Some of his backers, those who call themselves the Moral Majority, don’t seem to care. “Let him who has not gotten into Twitter wars with porn stars over hush-money payments in the lower six figures cast the first stone,” they advise us. They don’t seem to realize that this would add up to a lot of stone-flinging. What’s more, they act as if their long years of expressing outrage and horror over similar offenses as incurred by some Democrats never had happened at all.

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