Latent? You are being too kind.
And he is definitely understating it.
Haven't you heard all Democrats are sex-crazed pedophiles. Soon Websters Dictionary will redefine the term pedophile as a synonym for Democrat or the other way around. Of course, Republicans are never pedophiles... just a bunch of 'good old boy' misogynistic pussy grabbing rapists. No big deal!
From left to right: Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (who admitted to sex crimes), Rep. Jim Jordan (who was accused or turning a blind eye to sex crimes), former Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore (who was accused of … well, you know), and Rep. Matt Gaetz (who is being investigated for possible sex crimes).
Laura Ingraham launched a wild crusade against the Disney accusing it too of being complicit in “grooming.”
The GOP has many more notable and recent scandals involving the sexual abuse of minors and young students—as well as a recent track record of reacting to them with a shrug.
In 2006, Florida Rep. Mark Foley was forced to resign after it was revealed that he’d sent sexually explicit messages and propositioned teenage congressional pages via email and text.
In 2015, former Rep. Dennis Hastert, the longest-ever serving Republican speaker of the House, pleaded guilty to making illegal hush-money payments in order to cover up his history of sexually abusing high school wrestlers he had coached decades before.
“Nothing is more stunning than having ‘serial child molester’ and ‘speaker of the House’ in the same sentence,” the judge said at his sentencing.
During and after the 2016 presidential race, among the dozens of women who accused former president Donald Trump of being a sexual predator were several contestants in the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant, who reported that he barged into their dressing room while girls as young as 15 were changing. (Trump allegedly told them, “Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.”)
Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore was accused of preying on girls as young as 14 and 16; the New Yorker reported that his habit of trying to pick up high schoolers was so notorious that it actually got him banned from a local mall.
Ruben Verastigui, a former GOP staffer and Republican National Committee aide who admitted to being part of a ring that traded child pornography involving babies was sentenced Thursday to more than 12-and-a-half years in prison.
A Trump appointee at the Commerce Department, Adam Hageman, was arrested on charges he shared a child pornography video and commented on sexually abusing children. He was sentenced to 66 months in prison.
