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    Blake Farenthold and the Grandfathering of Sexual Harassment

    Many men accused before Harvey Weinstein have managed to retain their posts, but the forced retirement of a Texas Republican breaks the trend.
    by David A. Graham Dec 14, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Pat Sullivan / AP

    On the surface, Representative Blake Farenthold’s arc this week is familiar: Politician is accused of bad behavior; politician is accused of even more bad behavior; politician announces he’ll leave office.

    In the case of the Texas Republican, that came after the series of scathing exposes in and then . The described an alcohol-sodden, sexually charged office in which “women would discuss which male lobbyists had texted them pictures of their genitals, and both men and women would talk about strip clubs and whether certain Fox News anchors had

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