They are stepping forward now not on principle but due to political necessity. The Republicans are sexual harassers propaganda campaign is boomeranging back on the Democrats and their media allies and they are trying to get control of the narrative again. The other part of all this coming to ahead is to stop Hillary from clearing the field for 2020 since she is using the “I was robbed” book tour to turn into a crusade “Right the wrong committed against both me and women everywhere! Lets resist and take what was stolen from us and win in 2020!” The Democrats are trying to push Hillary off the stage but she’s not going to go because she still thinks she can get into the White House. The Democrats realize she won’t but like a bad case of stubborn VD they can’t get rid of her no matter how strong the penicillin.
She’s not getting any younger and the Dem party has always been the ‘party of youth’, at least since JFK’s election.
LBJ was a powerful senator and then VP, then POTUS and still the Dem leadership had to go to him to tell him he could not run for reelection in 1968, even though he could have.
They may have to do the same with Hilliary, take her aside and say ‘Go away!’..................