But two groups’ deep differences means that neither can abide the possibility of the other’s final victory. It wasn’t that those feminists had ceased to believe in the principle that powerful men shouldn’t prey on weaker women. Now we’re living through a similar period of tactical compromise with libertinism, but this time it’s religious conservatives who are compromising. Fearful of secularization and feeling culturally besieged, they have thrown in with a president who embodies that old early-1980s debauch. Still, the inevitability of that battle doesn't require embracing strategic libertinism at every turn and hardening your battles lines at every front.

Source: New York Times September 29, 2018 18:51 UTC