The Left Is Finally Ready To Condemn Bill Clinton

The Roy Moore scandal (combined with everything going on in Hollywood) has forced the left to take a long, hard look in the mirror. Liberals have finally realized that their cries against sexual harassment mean nothing as long as they continue to defend pervs when it’s politically convenient for them.

I’m talking about THE ultimate sexual predator, Bill Clinton. For so long, they’ve dismissed his accusers and laughed off his pervy ways.

Not anymore. At least, for now. Even NYT realized that it had to come out in support of Juanita Broaddrick. And now, there’s this.

Vox’s Matt Yglesias wrote a giant piece on why Bill Clinton should’ve resigned in 1998. Yep. It took almost 20 years, but NOW liberals are ready to call for his resignation. SO BRAVE AND MORAL OF THEM!

It was far from the most egregious case of workplace sexual misconduct in American history. But it was unusually high-profile, the facts were not in dispute, the perpetrator had a lot of nominal feminist ideological commitments, and political leaders who shared those commitments had the power to force him from office. Had he resigned in shame, we all might have made a collective cultural and political decision that a person caught leveraging power over women in inappropriate ways ought to be fired. Instead, we lost nearly two decades.

But now? Now liberals realize that! Bill Clinton totes should’ve resigned. It would’ve been the right thing to do!

I’m calling BS on this. I don’t think the left means it. They only feel comfortable knocking the Clintons now, because they know Hillary doesn’t stand a chance of ever becoming POTUS. Do you seriously believe Matt Yglesias would’ve penned this article a year and a half ago? No way in heck.

But now that Hillary is out of electoral politics and has emerged as a bigger draw and more potent political force than her husband, there’s no excuse for Democrats not to look back on these events with more objectivity. Fifty-something leaders of organizations shouldn’t be carrying on affairs with interns who work for them regardless of whether the affair is in some sense consensual.

Ben Shapiro nails it.

And then these people wonder that so many Republicans are willing to back Roy Moore.

Yglesias admits that Democrats “blew it.” What he fails to acknowledge is that if given the same stakes today, they’d blow it again. And so, in all likelihood, would he.

I especially love Tammy Bruce’s take on this.

From @jaketapper: Unlike Roy Moore’s accusers today, ‘the media treated [Bill Clinton’s accusers] poorly’ in the 1990s. https://t.co/PIBKEGLFUH pic.twitter.com/2CELPfgX5e

— Byron York (@ByronYork) November 15, 2017

I would say, @ByronYork, it’s not that society has ‘evolved’ but that the politician in question is a Republican. https://t.co/VP2bJdE663

— Tammy Bruce (@HeyTammyBruce) November 15, 2017

Exactly.

Admitting and “confronting” that Bill Clinton was a serial predator

-only after his wife lost her 2nd(!) presidential bid and Clintons made $100 million selling influence-

isn’t brave or righteous

It’s too late

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) November 14, 2017

In this game of human chess, the media sacrifices an old, irrelevant Bill Clinton to fight for a Senate seat. Remember – Media was silent when it mattered.

— Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸 (@Cernovich) November 14, 2017

Too little, too late.

h/t Daily Wire