UH OH: Two More Women Accuse Joe Biden of Inappropriate Touching. “This now makes four accusers who have come forward. One of the new women was only 19 years old at the time of the incident.”
Plus: “Biden’s team has started to go on offense, accusing the campaigns of other 2020 Democratic presidential candidates of being behind these women coming forward—particularly the Bernie Sanders campaign.”
Related: Joe Biden is damned by his own ‘harassment’ standard. “According to the standards of culpability that Biden has articulated in similarly conflicted situations, however, it’s an open-and-shut case. Perhaps no major American political figure has so consistently championed the erosion of due process for those accused of sexual misconduct. . . . Biden’s current situation recalls that of former Sen. Al Franken, who bitterly criticized DeVos’ Title IX policies, only to flail about in defending himself against allegations (mostly less serious than what Biden faces) of sexual misconduct. Ideologically boxed in, Franken couldn’t defend himself by challenging his accusers’ veracity, lest he appear to reject the party’s consensus about believing all complainants.”
The #MeToo movement morphed into a moral panic, or actual mass hysteria, with a lot of encouragement from politicians who probably regret that now. But it’s hard to feel too sorry for them.