Despite their identical physical appearance to you and I, they have made themselves clearly and recognizably different to each other. They have a relatively clear concept of their own group identity, and predictably, it involves distancing themselves emphatically from those they most resemble physically. A second form of race forming behavior displayed by the beltway commentators is their casual message of community breakdown. Numerous female commentators kept repeating a rule of their own invention - that the president's private life was of no concern and no relevance to his job. And yet they emphatically expect fidelity from the men in their own private lives.
Cohesive societies apply the same moral rules to the powerful and the weak.
The sexual taboos of society always serve some equality interest. If the politically powerful restrain themselves, they acquire the moral authority to punish rapes and other violent challenges to the moral order by young males. So the commentary accompanying the scandal bore witness to America's social breakdown. The female liberals in our beltway elite do not care. They apparently feel that they are insulated from any personal consequences of their public policy.