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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a story as old as time.

Young woman gets swept up in affair (political or sexual) with older man/men in positions of much greater power.

This particular young woman has an underdeveloped (but within the range of normal for her age/life experience) sense of judgement, and no real work experience, let alone experience dealing with powerful-but-shady, manipulative, older men with multi-decade track records of seducing, using, and discarding everyone in their path.

I’m choosing to take the positive reception to Hutchinson’s book as a sign that we’ve made at least a little progress as a society since the Monica Lewinsky disaster.

These women were foolish and naive beyond words compared to how some of us functioned at their age. But they were truly no match for the horrible men for whom they worked. Both in their own way were victims of a high-risk situation involving a vastly mis-matched power balance. They both deserve our support. [/quote]

You're entirely wrong, and probably wouldn't have come out of this crisis as well as Cassidy did, at the same age. Cassidy is not a naive victim like poor maligned Monica. She's an intelligent and extremely competent person who wanted to jump-start her career by working for these people... because she's an ambitious conservative. She was so competent she became Meadow's right hand, no mean feat at her age. She saw things she couldn't square with competency or service to the country, and despite pressure, decided to speak out, because it was both the right thing to do and also because she thought the Trump train was not going to provide a future career for her.

She is a complex character, very much in control of her life, and to be admired, not pitied.

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