"Right now, the U.S. right and carceral liberal forces (including many Democrats) are focused heavily on demanding that the Department of Justice release the grand jury files related to the Epstein case - as though this "smoking gun" will finally clarify everything and bring perpetrators to justice. But both the right and carceral liberals have a bias toward protecting the status quo and the very institutions that fail survivors of childhood sexual abuse every day, like police and prisons."
"From where we stand, we see two important dynamics related to the Epstein case. First, we know of no major left organizations or coalitions that have responded by demanding meaningful action on childhood sexual abuse - despite the horrific scale of violence and the deep divisions that Trump's close relationship with Epstein has created within the MAGA movement, divisions that could be strategically widened."
More than 1,000 girls and young women were abused by a network tied to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Current right-wing and carceral liberal responses prioritize release of grand jury materials while protecting police, prisons, and institutional status quo that fail survivors. Meaningful prevention requires structural change, abolitionist feminist approaches, and diminished reliance on punitive institutions. The left has not organized major demands for systemic action on childhood sexual abuse despite opportunities to exploit divisions around elite complicity, particularly links between Epstein and MAGA figures, and to build unified movements to end child sexual abuse.
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