"Why Would a Rape Survivor Endorse Donald Trump?"

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Well, Mace was lying when she said Stephanopoulos was trying to "shame" her. She was, indeed, as the author claims, "playing the rape card."

Stephanopoulos was being a jackass propagandist...and would never have treated a progressive rape victim in that way. He's a partisan hack making the case for his side. 

And Mace is pushing the case for her side. Probably to some extent she's telling the truth about honoring the views of her constituents. Maybe she's doing that out of principle, maybe to stay in office. Probably to some extent she also knows that no one can stand up to the Trump steamroller. 

The "card-playing" strategy is one the right has basically learned from the left. Almost the only "argument" the left has is the playing of such cards--on behalf of self or others. That's racist/your racist; that's misogynist/you're a misogynist; that's x-phobic/you're x-phobic...blah blah blah. I hate to see the red team pick this sophistry up...OTOH, it sure seems to work for the blue team...

My own view, though, is that such strategies facilitate only Pyrrhic victories. We may win individual battles, but perhaps at the cost of helping to entrench such sophistries in the unwritten rules of our public discussions.

Also, of course: E. Jean Carroll is probably lying.

And it's all part of the illicit, anti-democratic blue-team lawfare strategy--a strategy far more harmful to the nation than the January 6th Capitol clown show.

And, of course, both sides are similarly hypocritical. The red team accepted the Clinton rape accusations, the blue team defended him. The blue team readily accepted such accusations against Trump, the reds defend him.

Then of course there's the minor technicality that Trump was not found guilty of rape...and that the whole case was yet another progressive lawfare circus...