We should ask anyone defending Epstein or Trump, like Megyn Kelly today, WHY they think it's okay for adult men to want girls, but not for adult men and women to want each other. Bring this attitude into the light and challenge it.

It's not hypocritical to think a trans or gay kid is a deviant, and Trump is a great man, because in their worldview all men are naturally like Trump, and only trauma, sin, or perversion is at the root of happily adjusted trans & gay people in consenting relationships

The difference, or course, is agency and consent. But again, in their worldview men "naturally" want girls and vice versa. Which is why all cries of hypocrisy fall on deaf ears.

In their worldview, the only real & dangerous deviations are homosexuality and gender variance. Or engaging with pre-pubescent children. They see those as unnatural. And aligned. Hence the constant conflation with natural sexual and gender variance with dangerous deviancy.

AND it's assumed that young women naturally WANT the attention and protection of older men. The only difference between Leavitt's 32 year age gap marriage and what Epstein & Trump engage with is an arbitrary legal distinction, one they want to violate as proof of their power.

We are very much inside the logic of the paradox of tolerance. The right has been openly stoking violence against minorities for years, and their incitements have gone largely unchallenged. More hand wringing about civility and norms will do nothing. We crossed the Rubicon long ago.