Social critic: Time for Bill Clinton’s ‘Me Too’ Reckoning

What’s most remarkable about the #MeToo movement, says The Atlantic’s Caitlin Flanagan, is not the number of women involved but that they’re finally “being believed.” We had a similar moment during the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings in 1991, “but then Bubba came along and blew up the tracks.” So even as he now trades on his image as a doting grandfather, “let us not forget the sex crimes of which the younger, stronger Bill Clinton was very credibly accused.” But, unlike today’s accused men, Clinton “was rescued by a surprising force: machine feminism,” a partisan movement “willing — eager — to let this friend of the sisterhood enjoy a little droit de seigneur.” Which is why “the Democratic Party needs to make its own reckoning of the way it protected Bill Clinton.”