anonsally replied to your photoset:The whole thread is worth reading, if you can…I don’t…
Sunday, October 9th, 2016I don’t think I can read it, but I’m glad someone broke down what he said.
There’s that old truism of political scandal that it’s not the crime [that’s so bad]; it’s the cover-up.
That runs the risk of sounding like I’m minimizing the badness of the crime (in this case, of Trump’s thoroughly gross conversation on the bus with Billy Bush, and the spooky way they both reverted to smarmy rape-culture-laced flirtation – if you can call it that – with actress Arianne Zucker when they got off). I’m not trying to minimize that. But what the tweetstorm from Leah McElrath does is to pick apart Trump’s two public “apologies” and show how they’re textbook abuser-talk.
It’s not like any of this is new information, and there’s the whole other thing of why it was this particular transgression that made (some) of the mainstream politicians who’ve been supporting Trump get scared enough to bolt. But it just makes it so obvious what’s going on when you subject Trump’s attempt to deal with the video’s fallout to this kind of scrutiny.
I’m now going back to trying my hardest not to mention that vile person or the deeply disturbing way that a large swath of my country’s ostensible leaders have minimized and normalized his awfulness in pursuit of their own selfish ends. Thank you (and anyone else who’s still around in spite of my descending into this) for your patience while I work through my feelings.
I mean for this blog to be a happy place. Rededicating myself to that.
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