What can we learn from the Republican effort to turn the Harvey Weinstein story into a hit against Democrats _ despite the very obvious problem that many of those same Republicans are either supporting or working for a president who has also been accused of sexual assault (and who has a good-sized group of accusers who appear to be about as believable, if not quite as numerous, as Weinstein's accusers)?
Both parties have been plagued by politicians guilty of similar crimes; no doubt both parties have had hundreds of similarly guilty donors, activists and staff. Politicians, too, in both parties.
If we think of Weinstein as a Democratic party actor, which is fair, then it's certainly appropriate for the party to sever their relationship with him _ something, of course, that most Republicans haven't done with Donald Trump.
It may even be reasonable to say that severing should include ridding themselves of his now-tainted money. But holding the party responsible for not breaking ties with him before the news was reported? That's ridiculous, and no politician or party could survive that standard.
Wow, there sure are a lot of people in the media who really, really have it in for Hillary Clinton. OK, that's nothing particularly new. But still: To treat this in any serious way as a specifically Clinton scandal is really a bit much. She is only one of many Democrats who received contributions from the disgraced mogul over the years; singling her out doesn't make much sense at all.
And one more point: The fact that Trump-backing Republicans are out there actively pushing a story about how horrible it is to have ever accepted support from a sexual predator says either that they are incredibly confident that the conservative media bubble will protect the president and nothing outside of that bubble matters, or, more likely, that they are so trapped inside the conservative closed information loop themselves that they don't even realize that the accusations they are making against Democrats fit their own situations far better.
