The thing to understand is that people are deeply and willfully ignorant. The vast majority of people today have no idea that “grab them by the pussy” was even a thing.

And you can see that in so many discussions online. How often does someone actually answer a question or explain what that something happened and get told to “touch grass”? And while that is a global phenomenon, it is also something that very much came out of right wing politics. Think about how many “kid sitcoms” basically depict the nerd or teacher as a loser because they know facts but the protagonist knows Street Smarts. And how many end up negating even that because the protagonist knows one factoid and the “smart person” breaks down because they were wrong once?

The “problem” is that “the epstein files” have been the rallying cry of the alt-right for well over a decade. So they actually WERE aware of this even if they were completely in the dark on trump’s long history of being associated with epstein.