The MonicaLewinsky scandal continues to poison politics 25 years later, writes QuinHillyer.
The lie set in motion an explosive growth in the tawdriness and viciousness of U.S. politics that has poisoned the civic arena ever since. Also, its spinoff effects put the wrong people in power at the wrong time, with few statesmen-like “adults in charge” to mitigate the scandal’s reverberations.
From the very first days after the scandal erupted, the media and the public largely agreed that the possibility of perjury and obstruction of justice was far more important to the political system than the sex was. But the fact that the illicit affair involved a much younger woman, one actually in the president’s employ, was bad enough that even Hillary Clinton initially said the relationship itself, if true, “would be a very serious offense.
By early August of that year, only 31% believed Clinton should leave office, even if he lied about it under oath. The Lewinsky scandal and the fallout from it snapped those bonds in ways that never have been repaired. This was both because of the raw feelings from the impeachment battle itself and because the grown-ups who were able to bridge the divide were swept away by the scandal’s rip tide.
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