The Paradox of #metoo

[Johonny]

4. The Paradox is that Trump won on a message of White men are being unfairly treated

and the metoo movement has had an interesting split level effect. In liberal Hollywood and liberal politics its become a ticking time bomb destroying careers. Whereas in conservative circles its starting to become a badge of honor. Sure GOPer that cost their boss a lot of court money fell, but they're hardly disgraced. Billy Orielly pretty much as popular as ever. More to the point, it's helping cement the conservative narrative. Watch out in 2018 when the GOP push the message of look what happen to so and so, it can happen to you too. White men are under assault was there narrative, and now paradoxically their bad behavior has lent fuel only to the GOP's narrative. You wonder if even more moderate white males will lean GOP in the future because there's a feeling their not safe in this new liberal world.

The lesson here is, the metoo movement only teaches a lesson if everyone wants to learn the message. But we already know that even before the movement, the GOP don't want to learn that lesson. Indeed they have and plan to continue to, exploit it. Thus they're embracing Moore just like they embraced Trump and paradoxically it isn't hurting them, it's working. It's horrible, and yet it's pretty clear a lot of white males are doing badly out there in the current world, and this plays right into the GOP scapegoat message.

I don't know how the metoo movement turns this around, other than a generational shift as it's clear the young are moving left on gay rights, women's rights, gender rights. But generational shifts take a long time to play out in politics and many of us don't have a long time left