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Its Astonishing That It Took This Long for the Bill Clinton Moment of Reckoning to Arrive

Published: Nov. 16, 2017, 10:28 p.m.

One of the many remarkable things about this cavalcade of comeuppance for sexual abusers and harassers is that it\u2019s taking down men who once seemed untouchable to the media in part because they were on the right team: editors and executives at media outlets beloved by progressives, actors and comedians who were the faces of prestige TV shows, Democratic donors. Having \u201cgood\u201d politics, it turns out, isn\u2019t the same thing as having good sexual politics.