In the Bag

The implosion of Trump's campaign should give lesser-evil Clinton supporters space to criticize her policies. Why are they still silent?


Pour one out for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign — it’s dead.

October 7 saw the release of a tape from 2005 in which Donald Trump brags to Access Hollywood host Billy Bush about getting away with sexually assaulting women because he’s famous. The response from the media and most of the country has been swift and rightful: universal condemnation.

The flailing defenses of the comments as harmless and juvenile “locker room talk” by the few surrogates he has left would be laughable if they weren’t serving as apologetics for sexual violence. Immediately thereafter, new reports of women claiming Trump sexually assaulted them surfaced in the New York Times and People, and new tapes of Trump making insanely degrading comments about everyone from his own daughter to a ten-year-old girl were added to the already enormous pile of misogynist and frankly creepy statements he has made and things he has done.

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