But it’s not just Trump supporters who are being hypocritical. Conservatives have rightly pointed out the difference in the way Democrats and the mainstream media treated the sexual assault allegations against supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh versus the allegations against Biden. There is arguably a lot more evidence supporting the allegations against Biden than there ever was against Kavanaugh, but there’s a hell of a lot less liberal outrage. When confronted with a question about those double standards on Thursday, Nancy Pelosi responded by saying that she didn’t need a “lecture or a speech” and “Joe Biden is Joe Biden”. An extremely persuasive retort.
I’m not sure that the allegations against Biden will end up doing any serious damage to his campaign. However, the way in which the Democratic party and liberals have rallied behind him is going to do a huge amount of damage to #MeToo. Alyssa Milano, the woman who helped mainstream #MeToo, choosing to believe Biden over Reade will be brought up every single time someone says “believe women”. The way in which liberals downplayed allegations against Biden will be used as ammunition every single time someone on the right is accused of sexual assault.
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