Some politicians know how to take a photo without raising questions...

[Willie Pep]

21. If Obama was running for office today accusers would be coming out of the woodwork.

I think you are right, nobody saw much potential for weaponizing sexual harassment accusations at the time. The problem with the Me Too movement is that it has made trial by Twitter acceptable. When Republicans tried to destroy Bill Clinton they had to through formal procedures and rely on old media. Now social media makes public opinion lynchings easier.

Americans have a tendency to take laudable causes like opposition to sexual harassment and then completely abuse them by allowing moral panics to set in. Something similar happened in the 1980s when a greater awareness of the problem of child abuse gave an opening for cranks to claim that Satanists were abusing children at daycare centers. Plenty of lives were ruined by those accusations.

I had a feeling that the Me Too movement would eventually become politicized. Another gift to Roger Stone and Steve Bannon.