When Monica Lewinsky traveled to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday to promote her new podcast, she briefly popped the show’s liberal bubble by lamenting to the eponymous host that if what she went through in 1998 were to happen with some future Democratic president, she isn’t convinced the reaction would be any different.
Colbert wondered, “As opposed to 1998, what you went through in 1998, how do you think that would be different in 2025? If someone had that same experience, how do you think it would be different for them? Or if at all?”
Lewinsky tried to delicately dance around the political angle of the question but ultimately could not avoid it:
Yeah, it would be different in the number of ways. So, first of all, just the news cycle is shorter, but I think because of the MeToo movement, we are more aware…
