Imagine if an all-powerful magician announced to the country that she would, with the country's approval, snap her fingers and thereafter, no man would ever again be able to use force, manipulation, or institutional power to obtain sex. Perhaps a few men would beg the magician to snap her fingers now. Probably a whole lot of men, including leftist and liberal men, would think that no issue under the sun was more important than stopping that magician from snapping her fingers. It is not only the phantom electoral process of representation that liberals are defending when they discount the importance of the issue. It is the sex itself that the men are defending, and the sex itself that leftist women and liberal feminists don't want to think about too deeply.
Bigotry always matters.
Bigotry especially matters when acted out by a head of state. The individual people who are hurt by these actions also matter, regardless of whether we like their personal characters. Sexual assault itself matters a lot, and so does exploitation, even of the trained and willing. Pretending these things don't matter is dishonest. It is also deeply sexist.