That’s why the Access Hollywood tape was so shocking—not because it happened, but because no one really seemed to mind. There was no uproar. The nation did not rise up with a single voice to say: This is not who we are anymore. We know better. Instead, we elected the grabber president. Over the following years, the proof escalated that the things we thought we’d transcended were still there, lurking like bad fairies. But that makes them sound alien, and for the last few years we’ve been confronted with the fact that the evil fairies are us.
