I’m Glad I Got Booed at CPAC<br />This year, in addition to the president and vice president, CPAC invited Marion Maréchal-Le<br />Pen, granddaughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen and niece of National Front leader Marine Le Pen.<br />And how can we participate in any conversation about sexual ethics when the Republican president<br />and the Republican Party backed a man credibly accused of child molestation for the United States Senate?<br />Ask me that at a cocktail party and I will talk your ear off about how the very people who had lectured us about the utter venality<br />of workplace sexual harassment throughout the 1980s became suddenly quiescent when the malefactor was Bill Clinton.<br />Ms. Maréchal-Le Pen is a member of the National Front party,<br />and far from distancing herself from her Holocaust-denying, anti-Semitic and racist grandfather, she has offered him a more full-throated endorsement than her aunt has.<br />My panel was about the #MeToo movement, which was a natural for me since my new book coming out in<br />June, “Sex Matters,” grapples with the movement and other aspects of our fraught sexual ecosystem.<br />How can conservative women hope to have any credibility on the subject of sexual harassment<br />or relations between the sexes when they excuse the behavior of President Trump?<br />I fell hard for William F. Buckley as a teenager and my first job was as editorial assistant at Buckley’s National<br />Review, followed by stints writing speeches for first lady Nancy Reagan and then working for the Gipper himself.
