In a society governing itself in mature ways, the political response would be, "So what?"
My belief, based on nothing by way of fact other than what everyone has seen, is that he had a lech on for the office help and did a little probing in hopes of getting lucky. That makes him tacky, distasteful, boorish, socially inept.
It does not insert him into another minority group. The generation of executives from whom he chose his mentors was rife with bosses who believed it best if the girls in the typing pool could type, but, if they couldn't, might be retained for other positions. Call it wrong, but recognize that it was the culture and it took an unusually strong man to resist.
A morning review of Politico shows nine fat stories on office groping in the 90s by the man would would be president. Probably that many more are being run through spell czeck. The underlying theme is that a man guilty of a furtive slap and tickle is unqualified to administer the federal government; a man such as William Jefferson Clinton.
There are good reasons to oppose this guy, to see him as a buffoon. China on the verge of nuclear capability. The 999 plan (crafted solely to seem simple to the dullest voter). His love relationship with fiat currency and high-speed presses over at Printing and Engraving.
Inviting Whazzername to his apartment is not one of those reasons. If it were, the nation would be forced by logic to cancel the halo of one John F. Kennedy.
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The real damage is to the quality of the national dialog. There for a while we thought it could go no lower.
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