Harvey Weinstein and the GOP’s guilt-by-association game

In the world according to Fox News, every sex scandal is obligated to have a Clinton angle. But in truth, who at this point really cares about the latest laboriously crafted statement coming from Hillary? She is — for better or worse — yesterday’s news, despite Donald Trump’s undying obsession with her emails.

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Next year will be the 20th anniversary of the Oval Office sex scandal that prompted congressional Republicans to imprudently attempt to impeach Bill Clinton. At the time, too many leading Democrats made the mistake of casting Clinton as unfairly accused when the real victim was Monica Lewinsky, who paid a grossly unfair price for the sin of being a star-struck White House intern.

The hypocrisy of Bill Clinton’s defenders — many of them passionate feminists — did lasting damage to the Democratic Party. But we are now in a different century and a different moral climate. And it seems ludicrous to imply that Democrats are somehow to blame for the loutish behavior of Harvey Weinstein.

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