“ The Left’s enthusiastic embrace of these tropes and rhetoric props up the narrative that, for a woman to have reached the upper echelons of power in her field, she could only have done so through depravity and deception.” No, for anyone, man or woman, to have reached the upper echelons of power in government they employ depravity and deception. It’s sexist of you to think that men also don’t have to be shitty lyers to become powerful.