Michelle Goldberg has been an ap columnist since 2017. She is the author of several books about politics, religion and women’s rights, and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2018 for reporting on workplace sexual harassment issues.
It would be easier to know what to do with Tara Reade’s accusation that Joe Biden sexually assaulted her if her tale were more solid, or if it were less.
It would have been unimaginable for President Bush -- even though he could be quite demagogic — to brandish it as proof that he represented some quasi-mystical conception of “the...