Sex scandals just aren’t what they used to be in the United States.
As Tom Rogan explained last week, Stormy Daniels and her alleged fling with President Trump is intriguing but seemingly of little consequence. Voters knew what they were getting themselves into when they elected a thrice-married billionaire who had publicly boasted about his infidelity.
Americans care so little about the affairs of presidents, as Rogan concluded, that we’ve become like the French those “masters of disinterest when it comes to the extramarital adventures of their senior leaders.” While Rogan’s analysis seems mostly correct, a partisan caveat is required.
But not all Americans have transformed into cheese-eating-surrender-monkeys in the last year of the Trump administration. Just a lot of Republicans.
A new HuffPo/YouGov survey found that while just 11 percent of Republicans believed Trump philandered with Daniels, 54 percent said it would have been immoral if it really happened compared to 82 percent of Democrats who said that same. Cheating on your pregnant wife then, according to almost half of the GOP, is no big deal.
