
There is a point at which the tactical and the moral questions meet and merge. Let’s go back to the question posed by Hadley and others: why should we expend so much effort addressing the concerns of a section of the white working class? The simplest answer is that if we want to help the black or Hispanic working class, or alleviate the condition of the poor or the discriminated against more generally, we need at least some of the voters who are uneasy with blacks and Hispanics on our side.
The reason that harassing women is fun for him, the reason he gets a kick out of doing things he knows they won’t enjoy, is that it narcissistically reflects his own power back to him. “Oh, that woman let me grab her pussy, and she normally doesn’t let men grab her pussy. She let me do it because I’m a star, because I have power.”