kontextmaschine:

Friendly reminder that in the ‘90s when the Republicans came after President Bill Clinton over workplace sex with his just-out-of-college intern, amidst multiple accusations of pressing himself on employees and low-status women and rumors of using the Arkansas State Police to advance and cover up his sexual pursuits, the understanding from the left was these wrinkled-up prudes “chasing the Clenis” constituted an attempt to “repeal the Sexual Revolution” that the socially liberalizing post-‘60s electorate properly rejected

@dagny-hashtaggart said: “ The president should be setting some sort of example in the workplace…That’s all I’m talking about.” Should I read this as suggesting that failing to do so (in what was to all appearances a consensual relationship, albeit one with sketchy power dynamics) should be grounds for impeachment?

You should read it as suggesting that’s the hegemonic ideology of “the cultural left” as constituted today even as it more explicitly roots itself in the ‘60s revolutions, marking a departure from the previous “Something for Everyone” narrative and the coalition it serviced!