Paradoxically, I think that all the allegations that are coming out against various male members of the media and Congress are actually increasing the odds that Roy Moore becomes a United States Senator.
Every time a new report comes out that Matt Lauer or Garrison Keillor or whomever was a creepy perv who used power for sexual exploitation, it actually tends to normalize that behavior. I'm not saying that this is a reason not to come forward with these allegations, but if you are being told, "Don't vote for Roy Moore, he preys on young women." Well, who isn't preying on young women? Now, obviously, what Roy Moore did is categorically worse than anything these other guys did. He was preying on under-aged girls. That's a category difference.
But, if you're a Republican from Alabama, and you were wavering in your support for Moore, because he was an awful human being...well, who are we to judge? Aren't we all sinners? Isn't the continued presence of Al Franken and John Conyers just proof that what Roy Moore did isn't disqualifying? Again, that's bullshit logic. Moore preyed on a 14 year old. But it doesn't have to make sense to work.
I was really hopeful that Republican women in the suburbs of Birmingham, Mobile, Montgomery and Hunstville would gag on Moore. That they would turn away from a guy who would molest children. But the drumbeat of revelations - and what is more, revelations that target media and Democrats - will allow them to sigh regretfully and vote for the predator.
Just like they did last November.
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