A growing list of powerful men have faced serious consequences for sexual misconduct allegations but the most powerful one of all has faced none.
Although Mr. Zuma said "there must be consequences" for the misconduct, his rebuke did not involve suspension or expulsion from the party and may eventually amount to little more than a stern, parental lecture.
Trump's support of Moore, as well as the cascade of prominent men who have faced dramatic consequences for sexual misconduct allegations in recent weeks, brought renewed attention to Trump's own history of inappropriate behavior toward women.
Reality, of course, is a fairly elastic concept these days, and if there's a flaw in "Miss Sloane," it's that in future years its juicy Machiavellian gamesmanship may not look farfetched but dated — a throwback to a time when there were clearer consequences for professional misconduct, when people still retained their capacity for outrage.
A lingering debate over the consequences of misconduct seems like a recipe for poisonous internal strife within the Democratic coalition.
"In my humble opinion, in the present case, we cannot impose a consequence for a misconduct that was not part of the notice of allegations," he wrote in the report.
Colonel Broyles said, "It speaks about the moral bankruptcy of this whole process; that there's nothing we can do to these people that is too much, that there are no consequences for our own misconduct".
The illusion of geologic stasis is also dangerous because it lulls us into believing that our planet doesn't notice what we're up to that there are no consequences for our geologic misconduct.
The illusion of geologic stasis is also dangerous because it lulls us into believing that our planet doesn't notice what we're up to — that there are no consequences for our geologic misconduct.
The FRC can issue fines for misconduct.
