US politics
fromThe Atlantic
4 months agoThe Death of Scandal
Old-fashioned scandals no longer lead to reforms in the Trump era.
If you were to invent a scandal expressly to convince conspiracy theorists they were right all along, the story of the Afghan superinjunction would be hard to beat. A secret back door into Britain through which thousands of immigrants were brought, under cover of a draconian legal gagging order that helpfully also concealed an act of gross incompetence by the British state? It's a rightwing agitator's dream.
Weiner stated that politicians like himself and Donald Trump can survive scandals primarily because male candidates face less scrutiny compared to their female counterparts, such as Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton.