I just read Kevin Drum writing about the latest allegation of rape by Donald Trump. I think Kevin's "righter" about this matter than I was a couple of hours ago…
This episode hasn't gotten an awful lot of attention. This is the first I've written about it, for example. Why? I don't think it has anything to do with media outlets not taking rape allegations seriously. The real answer is almost worse: (a) everybody just assumes the story is true and (b) everybody knows that it will have no effect on either Trump's fans or his Republican Party colleagues. Trump will issue a pro forma denial; nobody will take it seriously; and that will be that. Just like the other 15 times.
What a shame that, in politics, something like this is only thought of as a crime when it can be used against your opponent and you look the other way when it's your guy. I don't think the Democrats quite did that with Clinton — I also thought Paula Jones was lying more and more, each time she changed her story — but there was some of that then.