Hillary Clinton’s view on the Lewinsky affair reveals a huge blindspot that cost her the presidency | Suzanne Moore

Clinton is right to say Trump should be investigated for sexual misconduct, but this does not excuse her husband. Now it is Monica Lewinsky who is emerging with class

The last time I looked, Bill Clinton was leering at Ariana Grande as she was singing at Aretha Franklin’s funeral. Bill, as his wife described him, was always “a hard dog to keep on the porch”. She lived with his many infidelities, often dismissing the kinds of women he went for as trashy and insignificant.

Indeed, when his affair with Monica Lewinsky was finally revealed, she, too, was scorned, not just by Hillary, who was lied to by her husband, and lied for him, but by many other prominent feminists. Erica Jong was nasty about her; so was Tina Brown. The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd called her predatory. She was spoken of as blousy, stupid, unattractive, scheming – and having bad breath. Some solidarity.

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