We must be better
“In 2017, Roy Moore was accused of sexual misconduct with teenage girls, including one who was fourteen at the time of the alleged assault. Nine women came forward. The reporting was extensive and documented. The Republican Party of Alabama endorsed him anyway. The President of the United States endorsed him. He lost by less than two points, and half the party spent the following years insisting the allegations were fabricated.
“In 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when she was fifteen. She had disclosed the assault to a therapist years before Kavanaugh’s nomination — the same evidentiary pattern that now, in the case of Jenny Racicot, is being cited by the very same right-wing media as proof of credibility. She was smeared. She was called a Democratic operative. Her therapist notes were dismissed. She was forced from her home by death threats. Kavanaugh sits on the Supreme Court today.
“In 2023, a Manhattan jury found, as a matter of civil law, that Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll. He was ordered to pay her $83.3 million in damages after a second jury found he defamed her by continuing to call her a liar. The Republican Party nominated him for President twice after this adjudication. He won. He is currently the President of the United States. He continues to call Carroll a liar. His supporters — my friend among them — continue to insist the whole thing was a hoax.
“In 2025, the Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense over credible sexual assault allegations, a pattern of misconduct in his prior workplaces, and a settlement he paid to a woman who accused him. . . . The Republican senators who voted to confirm him did not do so because they believed him. They did so because the confirmation was the price of maintaining coalition. Sexual assault, in that vote, was priced into the deal.”
Democrats must be better than this (low bar, I know). Even if it means losing the Senate, Platner *must* go.
Why Graham Platner must go
“In 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her when she was fifteen. She had disclosed the assault to a therapist years before Kavanaugh’s nomination — the same evidentiary pattern that now, in the case of Jenny Racicot, is being cited by the very same right-wing media as proof of credibility. She was smeared. She was called a Democratic operative. Her therapist notes were dismissed. She was forced from her home by death threats. Kavanaugh sits on the Supreme Court today.
“In 2023, a Manhattan jury found, as a matter of civil law, that Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll. He was ordered to pay her $83.3 million in damages after a second jury found he defamed her by continuing to call her a liar. The Republican Party nominated him for President twice after this adjudication. He won. He is currently the President of the United States. He continues to call Carroll a liar. His supporters — my friend among them — continue to insist the whole thing was a hoax.
“In 2025, the Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense over credible sexual assault allegations, a pattern of misconduct in his prior workplaces, and a settlement he paid to a woman who accused him. . . . The Republican senators who voted to confirm him did not do so because they believed him. They did so because the confirmation was the price of maintaining coalition. Sexual assault, in that vote, was priced into the deal.”
Democrats must be better than this (low bar, I know). Even if it means losing the Senate, Platner *must* go.
Why Graham Platner must go