Sheldon Whitehouse Continues to Be Insufferable
Progressive policy ambitions meet practical realities as Americans weigh costs and consequences.
his concern for victims apparently comes with a party affiliation attached. That's not a gaffe. That's a senator from a state so safely blue he never has to worry about a real election explaining, more or less unprompted, who counts and who doesn't.
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) made his point about sexual misconduct quite clear with CNN’s Jake Tapper yesterday: he only cares about Democratic women who are raped or abused. He can get away with saying this stuff because he’s from a deep blue state, but it still doesn’t negate the fact that he’s a grade-A piece of s**t.
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his concern for victims apparently comes with a party affiliation attached. That's not a gaffe. That's a senator from a state so safely blue he never has to worry about a real election explaining, more or less unprompted, who counts and who doesn't.
We've watched enough of these moments to know the drill. If a Republican senator had said anything resembling this about women on the other side, it would be the lead story on every network for a week, with think pieces about misogyny and party rot to follow. Whitehouse says it, and it barely makes a ripple outside conservative media. That asymmetry is the actual story here, more than Whitehouse himself.
The deeper issue is what this says about how selective outrage has become on these issues. Sexual misconduct isn't supposed to be a partisan football, but for a lot of people in Washington it clearly is one, useful when it damages the other side and easily shelved when it doesn't. Whitehouse just admitted that's the game.
Rhode Island voters keep sending him back, so he has no real incentive to watch his mouth. That's on them. But the rest of us are allowed to notice that a sitting U.S. senator just told America, plainly, that some victims matter more than others depending on who they voted for.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.