It seems that achieving that elusive Democratic Senate majority, and the promise of a Trump impeachment it represents override the party’s previous feminist principles. In a cringe-inducing interview on CNN, Jodi Kantor, #MeToo reporter at the New York Times, got on her metaphorical hands and knees to scrub Platner’s muddy footprints from Maine’s clean, pine-scented living room rug: No, Kantor said, these are not “classic” #MeToo accusations against Platner that have come forward, contrasting these accusations against Trump’s, except, ok, for that “one allegation of crossing a line physically,” but normally, when Graham Platner acts creepy and coercive to women, it’s…it’s ..so they were “mostly made in the context of consensual relationships,” she fansplains. “And so, I think it speaks to the kind of confusion of the long post-#MeToo moment in which, like, gender-related accusations get bundled together. But they’re actually very different.”