In the post-#MeToo era, Joe Biden’s strange lack of personal boundaries, particularly around women, no longer appears so innocuous—the sort of cringey, old-man quirk worthy of jokey slideshows and late-night compilation videos. (The Daily Show famously produced a segment on Biden’s proclivity for invading women’s personal space entitled “The Audacity of Grope.”) So perhaps it was only a matter of time, with Biden contemplating another run for president, that a fresh allegation of unwanted touching would prompt a ferocious, Twitter-wide reassessment of the beloved former vice president.
