When an editorial writer mentions "the restoration of elementary American values," you know for certain that a smokescreen is going up. The patriarchal values during the time of our founding fathers tolerated a multitude of social norms which we no longer accept. Slavery was one of them, as well the lingering "droits de seigneur" where those in power were legally allowed to have sex with the bride of one of their workers on her wedding night. Servant girls were regularly raped and turned out of doors if they became pregnant. Young slave girls fetched higher prices. In Western culture starting with Eve, women were guilty of tempting men who somehow were unable to control themselves. History has always been on the side of men. Cooke's defense of the rights of men to defend themselves ignores that any woman accusing a man lays herself open to sexual scrutiny and her "moral values." America's foundations are firmly puritanical and anti-women. According to Cooke, if Biden comes down on the side of women or the victim without due process, he is in legal no-man's land. Sounds like the usual set up for the Gaetzes, Eptseins, and Trumps of this world to continue their merry work.