Welcome to 2017, where it’s becoming more like 1817 every single day! Sexual predation gets you elected to office, you get vilified if you’re a person of color who dares to stand up for your rights, and white supremacy will…also get you elected to office. 2017’s clearest example of this harmful regression is entirely embodied by one Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for the Alabama Senate seat.
He’s shown time and again how much of a monster he is, and yet, 17 minutes ago, President Donald Trump tweeted out yet another message endorsing him. The world we live in is a bad one, folks.
The report detailed allegations from four women against Moore. Leigh Corfman said Roy Moore assaulted her when she was 14 years old and he was in his 30s. Three other women claimed that he preyed on them too when they were teenagers and he was twice their age.
In any other reality besides the warped one we’re living in, that should have been enough to shatter his chances at a seat in the U.S. Senate.
Additionally, a fifth woman accused him of sexual misconduct and presented her high school yearbook, which Moore had signed, as proof that he pursued her when she was just a girl.
The #MeAt14 hashtag went viral, illustrating just how inappropriate Moore’s behavior was.
Before Roy Moore was a known pedophile, he was already a backward-thinking guy who refused to debate his opponent, Doug Jones, because he believed Jones was too tolerant of transgender people (2017!!!).
The guy is like all your racist grandparents and creepy uncles rolled into one mega supervillain.
Despite an initial drop in the polls, Roy Moore is still very much a contender in the Senate race. GOP members who once called for him to drop out have changed their tune. The RNC has reinstated their support for Moore.
In 2017, the President of the United States, a known sexual predator, endorsed a pedophile for a seat in the U.S. Senate.
It’s this same pedophile that once said that America was great when there was slavery…