NICK KRISTOF: “In fairness to Trump, other senior men in politics and business — John Kennedy and Bill Clinton come to mind — also sometimes showed a sense of entitlement toward young women.”

John Hinderaker: “Second, it can be useful to ask, What would the Democrats do? Here there is no need to speculate: we saw what they did in the 1990s. They circled the wagons and defended their man to the hilt, using whatever smears and lies were helpful, even though he was credibly accused of rape and multiple instances of sexual harassment. Indeed, that is what the Democrats are doing now with Hillary Clinton, as revelations much more material to her performance in office than the Trump video have come out over the past year or two. See, generally, Clinton Cash. Republicans are always held to a higher standard than Democrats, but why? Maybe this is as good a time as any to reject the double standard and fight fire with fire. E.g., this Drudge headline: ‘KATHLEEN WILLEY CALLS FOR HILLARY TO RESIGN FROM CAMPAIGN…'”

UPDATE: Hey, Trump was a Democrat when he said this stuff, you know.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Giuliani: Trump Ready for GOP Insiders vs Outsiders War.

MORE: Toward a Strategic Theory of Donald Trump and the GOP: A meditation in approximately 1 quadrillion tweets.

STILL MORE: Thoughts from Scott Adams: “If nothing new happens between now and election day, Clinton wins. The odds of nothing new happening in that timeframe is exactly zero.”