Little by little the Democratic Party has slipped out of the favor of American voters. The party took a huge hit from the failures of the Obama administration and an even larger hit when they ran the most disliked, deeply flawed Presidential candidate in modern history during the last election.
Unable to win the hearts and minds of Americans like they once could, Democrats have resorted to tactics that are far more unsavory in order to cling to power and thwart conservative progress. Now, it seems as if they’ve taken one of the most serious and troubling issues of our time – sexual assault – and turned it into a powerful political weapon.
The cultural conditions for the weaponization of sexual assault couldn’t be more perfect. The feminist movement and the cultural left at-large have created an environment where we are told that all men are aggressive, sexual deviants and told that all women should be believed no matter the lack of evidence supporting their claims. Whether or not this cultural shift is rooted in good intentions is up for debate, but either way, it has created a dangerous scenario for Republican men in politics.
Democrats first tried to use sexual assault allegations as a method to bring down President Trump and secure victory for Hillary Clinton. In spite of a lifetime in the public spotlight without ever facing any accusations of sexual assault, President Trump was suddenly hit with dozens of uncorroborated, unsubstantiated accusations toward the end of the 2016 election.
The leftist media broadcasted these accusations day after day, and for a period of time, Trump’s chances of winning the election looked dire. Of course, we now know that the tactic failed in 2016. The American people saw past these false accusations and handed Trump an overwhelming victory over Clinton.
However, this would not be the last time the left used sexual assault allegations to target a prominent Republican, and the next time, the tactic would succeed.
When conservative Roy Moore ran in the special election to fill the vacancy in the Senate left by Jeff Sessions, Democrats rolled out the tactic of sexual assault allegations once again. Again, the evidence supporting the claims made against Roy Moore was threadbare at best, but this time the accusations were too serious, too gritty for the people of Alabama to stomach. Moore’s Democratic opponent won the election, handing Democrats a victory in a state that has been a Republican stronghold for decades.
This was the point that many Republicans began to see the writing on the wall – if unsubstantiated allegations of sexual assault could secure a Democratic victory in Alabama – one of the reddest of red states – there was no ceiling on what the tactic could allow them to accomplish.
Now, the Democratic Party is in the process of weaponizing sexual assault allegations yet again, this time to block President Trump’s second Supreme Court pick, Brett Kavanaugh. The accusations that Dr. Ford has leveled against Judge Kavanaugh are uncorroborated and full of glaring holes.
The accusations that others have made against him are even more outlandish, yet that hasn’t stopped the media from running with them in an effort to thoroughly obliterate Judge Kavanaugh’s good name. Already, Democrats have succeeded in stalling and delaying Kavanaugh’s nomination, thanks in no small part to help from Republican turncoats such as Sen. Jeff Flake.
If Democrats can simply prevent Trump from filling the vacancy on the Supreme Court until the new Senate takes over this January, they may be able to prevent Trump from filling the vacancy at all.
It’s deeply concerning to see the tactics work as well as they have. Even if one is to believe in the sincerity of accusers such as Dr. Ford, there’s still no denying the fact that the Democratic Party has used them as pawns in a messy, brutal political game. If Democrats are indeed capable of completely manufacturing sexual assault claims – a level of immorality and unfairness that no one should be shocked to see them stoop to – then truly no Republican is safe.
The Democrats have turned sexual assault accusations into a finely tuned weapon of mass political destruction, and the only thing that will stop them from using it any time they please is consistent failure and mass public outcry. So far, though, these two things have been in absence, creating an environment where Democrats are able to take down any Republican at any time with just one unproven allegation.
