Homophobia was recently added and it has been used to radically alter the culture, even the culture of the Marine Corps. These weapons are potent.
Perhaps the most potent weapon of all is the charge of racism which was so powerful a weapon that it rivals the Great Depression as the lever which wholly distorted our Constitution. Indeed, the idea of a Constitution as a solemn compact upon which the legitimacy of our republic rests has been to a dismaying degree discredited by charges that it endorses racism and it is therefore to be despised.
So we are seeing application of one of these weapons against a prominent spokesman that many people regard to be conservative. It almost worked against Clarence Thomas and, most recently, against Donald Trump. Fortunately, Trump was strong enough to withstand the assault, perhaps because his opponent was the walking, (barely) breathing embodiment of all that makes misogyny temptingly defensible.
