It’s here where men’s rights advocates like the podcaster known as Myron Gaines, one of the more prominent and vociferous voices in this sinister space, have declared that the Cornell case reflects a culture that demands “zero accountability” for women. And now, Mr. Gaines believes, it’s time to give the #MeToo moment a “real re-evaluation.”

The onslaught against Doe and her supporters is taken directly from the playbook that established them: Gamergate. In 2014, a mostly anonymous digital horde waged a full-scale assault on women working in the gaming industry in an effort to damage their reputations and drive them from their professions. They harassed and doxxed their victims and fabricated and disseminated conspiratorial rumors about them, all at a critical moment when the online world was first starting to function like the social media-dominated internet we know today.

Gamergate is a formative origin point for the alt-right, whose members and ideas have been absorbed into what is now called the new right. Once a subset of the broader conservative movement, the intellectuals and policy wonks of the new right, who almost all share atavistic visions of a masculine-obsessed politics, helped pave the way for Mr. Trump’s rise to power.

Today, their ideas are shaping both the G.O.P. and the actions of the federal government. What was once a style practiced by the fringes, out on the hard edge of the American masculine psyche, has now become an everyday tactic among the MAGA mainstream and the heart of government. As a political tactic, resorting to a decade-old strategy of harassment should be evidence that the right’s bag of tricks is painfully meager. It’s also a bit baffling. In the face of a midterm election that could knock Mr. Trump’s presidency down into a posture of feeble lameness, the right’s online surrogates are instead burning crucial bandwidth on a grotesque persecution of a sympathetic woman — all while pushing a scolding grievance message about sexual values that is more likely to scare away new voters than bring them into the tent.

Read the rest if you have a strong stomach, I can’t take it any more. The tell: describing Lucy Craig as “sympathetic.” There is literally nothing sympathetic about her: she’s an Ethics Villain, willing to destroy the reputations of seven men after serving herself up as a sexual smorgasbord and inciting the Left’s worst wackos to use her as a partisan cause. Both Cornell and New York have put pre-biased, proven Democratic legal hit-women in charge of the investigations of the incident while news outlets like the Times keep her name out of the news and away from accountability.

No, I don’t know what happened exactly, and unless a video and sound recordings surface, nobody ever will. That, however, like everything else, is substantially Lucy’s doing: she got wasted, she rang the metaphorical dinner bell, she even went down on one of her “rapists” while he was passed out. Poor Lucy! As for Nathan Taylor Pemberton, the author of this steaming pile, he cheats by pretending that only the worst of the worst on the conservative side of the ideological divide are questioning Lucy’s story: groypers, Nick Fuentes, Alex Jones, Myron Gaines, the “Gamergate” crowd.

[Psssst: The Cornell fiasco has absolutely nothing to do with Gamergate, nor are there any parallels whatsoever.]

Interestingly, Althouse’s readers were nearly unanimously critical of the retired professor for featuring the piece. Sample comments:

• “What does voting for Trump have to do with Blue State Hell at Cornell, and the liar who lied about the pre-approved sex she had? Oh right – an election is fast approaching and the leftwing-Demo-soviet media are already making that connection.”
• “I’m willing to bet that the people who support this woman at least initially believed nearly every such claim from every woman regardless of proof or credibility, from the thousands who claimed Justice Kavanaugh assaulted them to the Duke lacrosse rape hoax. It takes a confession to change their minds, and even that doesn’t make them regret the damage done to the falsely accused. In fact, it just makes them more convinced the next time, right from the start. It’s a lot like TDS. Even when the lies are proven to be lies, they still reinforce the cranial synapses carrying the lies, and then they build on each other until the cranium is incapable of skepticism on the subject.”
• “Does anybody believe that 1 in 4 women are sexually assaulted in college? I asked ChatGPT (“Are 1 out of 4 women in college sexually assaulted?”), here’s the answer: “Yes, roughly 1 in 4 female undergraduate students reported experiencing sexual assault in a major U.S. college survey.” If you’re of the nit-picking sort, you might notice the inclusion of “reported” in the answer, when the question did not include it. Either way, what does it say for the decision-making abilities of females, when they choose to put themselves in a situation where they believe the “1 in 4″ stat is a thing?”
• “I am disappointed that Althouse posts this drivel without pushback. There are legitimate questions as to whether the sex was nonconsensual, and there are indications in her social media that the sex was perhaps even initiated by Jane Doe herself. And three of the Cornell seven did not have sex with Jane Doe, but the NYT calls HER the victim?”

Yet here are reactions typical of about two-thirds of the Times readers:

• “Donald Trump the Great Example has led Republican boys and men back to the caves.”
• “Hillary called them deplorables. She was absolutely right and we never should have tried to sugar coat it. The right is deplorable.”
• “The flippant analytical tone of this piece feels like another violation of the humanity of the victim. It is unbearable to watch this woman be torn to pieces day after day by all sides. Enough.”
• “Sometimes I think that MAGA can’t descend any further into the lower echelons of disgusting behavior—there are limits to things—but then they up and surprise me: They dig into the basement floor seeking new, even more repulsive depths. I not only refuse to consider some of the MAGA mentioned here as Americans, I refuse to consider them as human. Have they no decency? (No.) Is winning that important to them? (Yes.) Or is it just their natural hatred? (Probably.) The meanness of many American citizens is astounding and apparently bottomless. It’s a very ugly sight and sound to behold. I was so naive. This is not the political party of Dwight David Eisenhower nor the country of Abraham Lincoln. Our country is populated by some very bad human beings. They have fouled the nest beyond forgiveness.”

How did these addled people get this way? By reading the Times….