They don’t mind a pedophile, as long as its their pedophile. They defend and endorse toxic masculinity, rape culture, and control of women’s bodies. In the end, the message from Trump will be “yeah, I did it, but so what, right?” He said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a follower - well its worse than that. In the same way he normalised and emboldened fascism, he will do the same for the sexual abusers. Soon, the right will be talking about how the girls on Epstein’s island weren’t that young, they were there by choice, they got paid, etc.
They don’t mind a pedophile, as long as its their pedophile. They defend and endorse toxic masculinity, rape culture, and control of women’s bodies. In the end, the message from Trump will be “yeah, I did it, but so what, right?” He said he could shoot someone in broad daylight and not lose a follower - well its worse than that. In the same way he normalised and emboldened fascism, he will do the same for the sexual abusers. Soon, the right will be talking about how the girls on Epstein’s island weren’t that young, they were there by choice, they got paid, etc.