Have we become numb to Trump's loathsomeness?

[DonViejo]

By Paul Waldman
Opinion writer
June 24 at 12:43 PM

When we look back on June 2019, we’ll say that this was the time when a credible allegation of rape was made against the president of the United States, and he had already shown himself to be such a loathsome character that it was treated as a third-tier story, not worthy of much more than a passing mention here and there in the news.

After New York magazine published author and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s account last Friday of an encounter she says she had with Trump in a Bergdorf Goodman that ended with him raping her in a dressing room, many of our most important news outlets reacted with only minor interest. Most of the nation’s biggest newspapers — aside from The Post — left it off on their front page the next day. None of the five Sunday shows mentioned it at all.

There are many reasons to find Carroll’s allegation credible. She’s a fairly well-known public figure. Her description of what happened to her — him slamming her against a wall, mashing his face against hers, yanking down her tights, and penetrating her — accords not only with the allegations of multiple other women but Trump’s own words on that infamous “Access Hollywood” tape, in which he bragged that he can sexually assault any woman he pleases. “I just start kissing them, it’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”

Just to remind ourselves, these are just some of the accusations women have made against the president:

Kristin Anderson says she was in a bar when Trump reached under her dress and grabbed her genitals.

Jessica Leeds says Trump groped her when they sat next to each other on a plane.

Natasha Stoynoff says Trump got her in a private room, pushed her up against the wall, and kissed her against her will. They were interrupted by a butler, allowing Stoynoff to get away.

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[TheBlackAdder]

1. Not me. He's a vile reprobate.

[Aristus]

2. Never.

[democratisphere]

3. How is a criminal still occupying the Oval Office in the WH.

How?!

[SHRED]

4. Exactly!

Waiting for 2020 is foolish.

We need to be displaying his crimes right now with impeachment hearings.
If the Repubs in the Senate refuse to impeach tie it all around their rancid necks for the election.

Time is running out.

[sprinkleeninow]

8. 'Waiting for the vote in 16 months.' Good God!

Serious and officially announced impeachment inquiry NOW!

[Rhiannon12866]

21. +1000!

[BlueJac]

5. Not at all...

I hate the bastard and his cult followers. Seems like the media is covering for him now! Where is Pelosi?? Nothing to see here, craziness!

[Skittles]

6. I haven't

but MAGAts are immune

[LakeArenal]

7. Some of us are just biding time til we can vote.

I won’t listen to him anymore tho.

I have to turn him off.

[world wide wally]

10. I can't think of a better way to turn people off to voting than to give a blind eye to everything

Trump does.
Sorry, Nancy. This time you are just wrong.

[ananda]

9. To me it looks more like helpless.

We have to take it to the streets and keep it up
if anything is to change.

[lindysalsagal]

11. Yes.

We knew all of this the night he "won." No surprises, here.

[dustyscamp]

12. People who arn't Democrats arn't shocked anymore

[Gringoguapisimo]

13. Creepers creep

For real, is this even surprising though?

[StarfishSaver]

14. I'm not numb. Just overwhelmed, exhausted and constantly trying to pick my battles

[struggle4progress]

15. He's a rapist. He's abusing children for political gain. And he's beating the war drums.

His administration is packed with corrupt incompetents. Russia is attacking our democracy. And he has some gigglefest going with North Korea and Saudi Arabia

It's a bottomless cup of toxic sludge

[customerserviceguy]

16. Many have

The mushy middle, the folks who decide the weekend before an election who to vote for (or against) simply are uninformed, and willfully so. They read so much, "Look what Trump did NOW!" that they just simply turn it off.

News media organizations know this, so they give these stories minimal coverage.

[ismnotwasm]

17. Hell no

Fuck no.

[nini]

18. that's his plan

It's intentional to constantly keep folks distracted and frustrated.

He's not stupid.. he knows exactly what he's doing.

[Poiuyt]

19. Yes we are

The problem is that trump does so many loathsome things that we're getting immune to them. We forget about the loathsome act that he did yesterday because we are so shocked by the loathsome thing he did today.

[smirkymonkey]

20. Absolutely not.

I am always disgusted, and even shocked because whenever you think he has reached a bottom, he continues to go even lower.

However, he exhausts me. Sometimes, I can't force myself to comment on everything he does because I don't feel like I have the words to properly express my level of revulsion and contempt. I just feel so beaten down by his awfulness and the fact that nobody seems to be able to stop him.

[kentuck]

22. Excellent question!

I think many people have become numb. Their sensibilities have been stretched to the limit.