Harvey Weinstein was found guilty this week of rape and sexual assault at his Los Angeles trial. This is the second such trial; he was also convicted of rape and sexual assault in New York and sentenced to 23 years in prison. This California sentence should be as much as 24 years. In other words, this monster is going to live the rest of his life behind bars.

Weinstein was a movie mogul who took the infamous casting couch to the horrific extreme. His predations against women were largely ignored for years and protected by his powerful cronies in politics and his own status in Hollywood. That was the status quo until the #MeToo movement took him down. Weinstein became the symbol for toxic masculinity and abuse of power — and rightly so. However, the #MeToo movement and the Left have continued to frame his deviance as an archetype for all masculinity. To this day, Weinstein claims that his pernicious acts against women were transactional: he gets something, they get something. He has yet to honestly address the morality of even that stance.

Harvey Weinstein is not the only big Democrat to be arrested and sentenced. Sam Bankman-Fried, the infamous former FTX CEO and huge Democrat donor, was just arrested in the Bahamas. Bankman-Fried was the author of possibly one of the biggest frauds in our history, bilking billions out of his victims and using that money to fund Democrats. He is the product of parents who believe that individual moral responsibility is repugnant. In a paper written by his mother, Barbara, she writes: “In the hands of hardcore retributivists the argument [for individual blame] has a decidedly Dickensian cast. To quote one proponent, when we punish someone, we respect his ‘fundamental human right to be treated as a person’ by permitting him to ‘make the choices that will determine what happens to him’ and then respecting his ‘right to be punished for what [he has] done.’ Lord save us all from such respect.”

Both Weinstein and SBF operated on the idea that their immorality and individual crimes would be protected against retribution because they would be shielded by their powerful friends in the Democrat Party. For a while, they were’t wrong.

Then there is Ed Buck. He was another Democrat donor and predator who was allowed to operate with impunity. In April, he was charged with drug and sex crimes. His crimes came to light notably because his victims were poor, black, and gay. His facing charges was a sacrifice to the politics of intersectionality.

Then there are those who have actually risen to power within the Democrat Party: former New Hampshire State Representative Barry (now Stacie) Laughton and former nuclear official Sam Brinton. Laughton had been continually elected to office in his state despite his unfitness and degenerate behavior. He was recently arrested for stalking. Brinton was recently fired from his position for stealing women’s luggage not once, but twice. There were other disturbing red flags as well against Brinton having to do with his dubious story leading to his activism and his overt promotion of sexual deviance (such as kink and other disturbing fetishes). Laughton and Brinton were put into positions of power despite their sordid past and present because they checked off the Left’s identity boxes.

All of these men are living embodiments of the ideals of the radical Left: hyper-individualism and no moral compass. They have used whatever capital — political or monetary — they have to get into positions of power so that they can pursue their appetites without fear of being stopped.

What they didn’t realize is that the Left eventually eats its own and will mercilessly sacrifice them when they’ve become politically expedient.

These men — all of them powerful, all of them “progressive” Democrats — are testaments to the old adage that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

As the prolific political thinker Thomas Sowell puts it, “It is so easy to be wrong — and to persist in being wrong — when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.”