In the last year or so, dozens of men have been fired from their positions of power for harassing women. It started slowly, first with was Roger Ailes, then Bill O'Reilly, then a variety of lesser Fox hosts and producers. Gretchen Carlson and and Megyn Kelly left Fox News, disgusted with Trump and management that allowed women to be treated like dogmeat.
In the last few weeks the steady drip has turned into a torrent: after dozens of women accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment and worse, he was fired from his company. Others in Hollywood, including Kevin Spacey, have lost their jobs. Several men in Silicon Valley (SoFi and Uber) have been fired. NPR's editorial director was fired for kissing women (with tongue) in job interviews while he was at the New York Times' Washington Bureau in the '90s.
Now the British government is starting to collapse with sexual harassment revelations:
British defense minister Michael Fallon quit on Wednesday, the first resignation in a growing sexual harassment scandal that prompted calls for a wholesale change in the “locker room” culture in parliament."Locker room" culture. Curious choice of words, that. Last year Donald Trump was caught on video bragging about sexually assaulting multiple women. He dismissed it as "locker room" talk. Yet he still -- albeit with the help of the Russians and James Comey -- managed to capture a majority of the electoral votes in the election.
Many of the men who have been accused have admitted wrongdoing and apologized for their actions, including Fallon, Spacey, and even Weinstein. Some are entering treatment.
A dozen women have confirmed Trump's brag of sexual assault, yet Trump's press secretary says those women are lying. So was Trump lying privately to Billy Bush when he bragged about pussy grabbing? Or is Trump lying publicly now?
The irony is that the main reason so many women have finally found the courage to report the sexual assaults against them is the election of Donald Trump. As former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson said on the Daily Show, she used the Trump tape as a teaching moment for her 11- and 13-year-old children on how not to treat a human being.
If Weinstein, Spacey, Ailes, O'Reilly and the defense minister of Britain can lose their jobs for sexual assaults they committed 20 and 30 years ago, then Trump's crimes are fair game for an impeachment hearing. Republicans went after Bill Clinton for less egregious offenses when they impeached him.
When are the "moral majority" Republicans going to live up to the morality they so loudly profess?
Probably never. Trump just bought them all off by including a provision in the tax bill that would allow churches to endorse political candidates. This will allow people to funnel tax-deductible contributions into churches that are just fronts for candidates. It's an outright and outrageous vote-buying scheme by Trump.
This is the real reason that so many evangelicals think that God ordained Trump's victory: money, money, money!
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