I don’t know why I was so dense when I posted this story that it didn’t occur to me what was going on, especially after Hakeem Jeffries weirdly tweeted that Swalwell, as near to the bottom of the ethics barrel as a House member can be (but not alone there) was too disgusting to be a Democratic Governor but not so horrible that he couldn’t stay in Congress. I believe it’s because my brain just won’t process how Machiavellian, corrupt and dishonest the Democratic Party of 2026 (actually 2008 through 2026) has become. Maybe I can’t grasp that because so, so many otherwise good people in my life still embrace this indefensibly organization and its anti-Democracy, anti-“Truth Justice and The American Way” proto-totalitarian drift. Maybe it’s that Cognitive Dissonance Scale. The damn thing is pulling the Democrats up from the depths they deserve because people I have high in positive territory for other reasons—love, trust, loyalty, respect—are chained to the party like a luxury cruise ship to an anchor.
Heck, I don’t know how I missed it, but I did. (Commenter James Flood didn’t, I know) So once again I ask rhetorically, “What’s going on here?” to answer: This…
Ethics Alarms 
This thread by Michael Tracey captures my own thoughts about this accusation, like so many in the past few years: https://x.com/mtracey/status/2042948847962349939
Before we are defending Eric Swalwell a couple of thoughts:
The accusations against Eric Swalwell there may be comparable to both. The Democrats may be willing to throw him under the bus for naked electoral reasons. The Kavanaugh hearings convinced me that the Democrat Party has zero ethics when it is about defending their power and influence. However that does not mean that Eric Swalwell is innocent of what he is accused of. The Democrat Party has a history in protecting politicians and influential donors whenever this is political useful, none more than Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial.
The only thing that Eric Swalwell needs for his defense is the truth. If he is innocent, then he does all men who have ever been falsely accused for sexual wrongdoing a service by fighting the accusations; I see this as a moral obligation on his part.
President Trump should not have made an endorsement for one of the two Republican candidates, Steve Hilton, until after the jungle primary. It would have been a blast to have two Republican candidates take the top spot and run against each other for Governor.
The Democratic Party has tried to use sexual misconduct as a tool of political power for so long I don’t even really know what to believe anymore. Did Swalwell cheat on his wife and do a bunch of other weird stuff with the consent of these women and now they want to bring him down because they hate him and want revenge
Or, if this is true, the Democratic party has known about it for a long time and preferred to keep him on a leash because he does serve political purposes, but when he goes too far off, then he pays?
There is so much bad faith everywhere that it seems impossible to figure out the truth. He’s a weird dude who shouldn’t have power anywhere, but I’m not certain about anything else.