Thread by @SethAMandel

OUT TODAY: @bkerogers brilliant cover story on Monica Lewinsky's triumph and what it means for internet shame culture, MeToo and the rest: Monica Lewinsky Gets the Last Laugh washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/monica…

@bkerogers "The way our society treats people who we believe deserve shame is often brutal, but when the mob came for Lewinsky in 1998, it was barbaric, and its methods unprecedented."

@bkerogers "Republicans were gleeful that the sordid details of the affair were public, and Democrats were more than willing to paint her as a ditzy, sex-obsessed neurotic who threw herself at their party's president, the 50-something Peter Pan, who just couldn’t help himself."

@bkerogers "the public created one version of Monica Lewinsky, whom she didn’t recognize, and she didn’t have the platform to fight against the narrative....

She was publicly humiliated and mentally destroyed. Clinton left office with one of the highest approval ratings in history."

@bkerogers "Lewinsky did save herself. She is no longer the girl in the black beret. She isn’t the punchline, political leverage, or front-page fodder. She’s a powerhouse, and possibly the best living example of bouncing back, better than ever."

Read the whole thing washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/monica…